I've been looking through old Traveller supplements.
There are adventures about old battleships that have been turned into prison hulks.
There are adventures about prison planets.
There are adventures about being shanghaied into slave labor by corporations.
And there is a lot of military stuff.
A friend of mine who worked on military subs said that it was a lot like doing hard time in prison.
Was Marc W. Miller just interested in these topics academically? Did he have personal military experience?
In passing, I note that some very good 20th century fiction dealt with being shanghaied into near-slavery, but I think there are more prisons in Traveller than there are in the average sample of sci-fi stories.
It would be interesting if anyone could confirm that Miller was in the military -- possibly on a submarine. If so, I think a major inspiration for the Traveller universe is evident.
There are adventures about old battleships that have been turned into prison hulks.
There are adventures about prison planets.
There are adventures about being shanghaied into slave labor by corporations.
And there is a lot of military stuff.
A friend of mine who worked on military subs said that it was a lot like doing hard time in prison.
Was Marc W. Miller just interested in these topics academically? Did he have personal military experience?
In passing, I note that some very good 20th century fiction dealt with being shanghaied into near-slavery, but I think there are more prisons in Traveller than there are in the average sample of sci-fi stories.
It would be interesting if anyone could confirm that Miller was in the military -- possibly on a submarine. If so, I think a major inspiration for the Traveller universe is evident.