[TML] What is Traveller?

[Richard Aiken]

On Dec 4, 2007 5:00 PM, Brad Murray <bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 1:56 PM, Greg <greg at nokes.name> wrote:
> > Read much Niven and Pournell?
> >
> > I loved that book, and it's memes have effected my GMing for years since.
>
> There's two authors in there.  Niven and Pournell's _Lucifer's
> Hammer_, sure, but Alois "The Hammer" is also from David Drake's
> Hammer's Slammer's series.  Also worth checking out if you like sf
> military-porn.  It certainly influenced a lot of my own Traveller
> gaming.

Yes.  To both.  LF is one of the few books I've read more than once: I
still get a chuckle out of the Russian cosmonaut with the
"unfortunate" name of Peter Jackov and can still picture that dead
kangaroo floating in that flooded store (I think I identified with
that scene so much because of the guy's lost eyeglasses).  And I'll
read anything with the Hammers Slammers in it.  Although my favorite
character wasn't Hammer himself, but Major Steubens (sp?), the
psychotic assassin/spy.  I *want* his power pistol.  :-)

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein