The Road Not Travell(er)ed [Charles Gannon and Post Hard-Times]

[hunter]

From Charles

From Charles Gannon:

I just wanted to thank you for giving me the opportunity to put the
material I did before the Traveller community. I would also like to say
to all those who read it--and particularly those who commented on
it--that whether my published (and unpublished) work appealed to you or
not, we surely share this: a deep appreciation for Traveller itself, and
I hope that the game and your community will continue to evolve and grow
as time goes on.

For those several who asked on-line about my fiction, and for the
greater number who located me (I guess by Google) and sent similar
inquiries to my university account, I apologize for my reticence.
However, I don't want to say anything until everything is signed,
sealed, delivered. But at such time as I have concrete information to
share (publisher, release date), I will send the data to Hunter and
allow him to publish it if, and as, he sees fit. I will say this: I am
not writing in the Traveller universe, nor any knock-off of it.
However, it is interstellar hard sf where the laws of gravity,
economics, and Murphy all play a role in determining how things work,
and what conflicts arise. The series is not so much a space opera as it
is a future-set technothriller with (I hope) a heart, ideals, and
flesh-and-blood characters.

Again, my thanks to you all: participating in your forums has been a
pleasure and a privilege.

Best wishes,
Chuck Gannon

Dr. Charles E. Gannon
Distinguished Professor of English, St. Bonaventure University
Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Literature and Culture

 

[Knightsky]

I am not writing in the Traveller universe, nor any knock-off of it. However, it is interstellar hard sf where the laws of gravity,
economics, and Murphy all play a role in determining how things work, and what conflicts arise. The series is not so much a space opera as it is a future-set technothriller with (I hope) a heart, ideals, and flesh-and-blood characters.

Sounds interesting. I'll be keeping an eye out for this, when it gets released.

 

[mike wightman]

This would have been so much better than the path the OTU took with TNE.

IMHO of course

 

[Whipsnade]

Just read the files Mr. Gannon gifted us with and... WOW

The parallels between his proposals material and both TNE and M:1248 are quite interesting. It makes me wonder just how much of Gannon's ideas echoed onward through short discussions separated by years between the various people involved. There are just too many similarities.

Mr. Gannon's references to a revised MT rules set, MT2 IIRC, adds another aspect to the "reboot" thinking behind TNE. GDW wasn't only interested in a "reboot" to replace the setting for TNE, it seems that the use of a "reboot" to replace the rules was also part of the picture. The suspender-snapping Virus slate wiper not only ended the Rebellion, it was also meant to fold the Traveller RPG system into GDW's "House System".

Evidently, the "reboot" was desired to both end the "endless Rebellion" and end the support by GDW of any RPG rules outside of the "House System". It was both a meta-game and a business decision!


Have fun,
Bill

 

[ganymede]

Utterly and completely awesome, Hunter. We must think of someway we can thank Chuck for this information.

I have to agree, I liked where this was going!