Traveller Fiction
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Early Traveller, perhaps, though I never played anyone who'd automatically break the law at every opportunity, the way those early adventures and Amber Zones assumed they would
.My favorites are honest rogues; able to put justice above law, but not oblivious to the consequences their actions have for innocent bystanders. People like Dominic Flandry, Sten, and Kirth Gersen.Who do you root for? The Imperium?
Honest heroes tend to be a bit duller than honest rogues, but there are exceptions. John Grimes, many of Jack Vance's protagonists, de Camp's heroes.
Hans
The Fleet series by Jack Campbell. Jump drives, big ships.
I don't think much of it but it's kinda like Traveller
I liked the Vorkosigan series but it's over. Too bad.
Poul Anderson, E C Tubb, Chandler did some great stories but everyone beat me to mentioning them.
Lots of good old stuff out there. I do notice that there isn't much like Traveller in current fiction.
I don't think much of it but it's kinda like Traveller
I liked the Vorkosigan series but it's over. Too bad.
Poul Anderson, E C Tubb, Chandler did some great stories but everyone beat me to mentioning them.
Lots of good old stuff out there. I do notice that there isn't much like Traveller in current fiction.
On her website she claims 14 months per novel and she's focused on her other series at present. (However, when I started reading eBooks I did notice I'd missed a Vorkosigan story: "Winterfair Gifts" ... a novella available either as a stand-alone eBook or burried in a collection called "Irresistible Forces" with several other authors.)
Bujold has stated that she has an instinctive reluctance to write the next Vorkosigan book because she has the feeling that it will include Aral Vorkosigan's death. And when your unconscious self don't want you to write something, inspiration is hard to come by
. However, she has contracted with Baen Books for another Vorkosigan book some time in the future.Unfortunately, she doesn't care much for prequels. There are some fascinating periods in early Barrayaran history that are rife with adventure potential.
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Like the Cetagandan occupation?
That would be interesting.
Perhaps I mis-stated. Perhaps the series isn't over, just the military part is. I have to say the last several books are less interesting, to me anyway.
I've only seen the Winterfair story in a collection
Yes, of course, but also Emperor Dorcas' fight to regain control of the counts just prior to the End of Isolation. And the generation before that, when the counts were semi-independent (that's the time of the Horse Manure War). And the generation before that, the reign of Vlad Vorbarra le Savante, "the most gaudily archaic period of the Time of Isolation" -- that always struck me as as splendid era for a "Three Musketeers" type story.
Hans
I feel the exact opposite way. I always find it difficult to recommend Bujold, because I think the first novels are fairly average action/adventure stories. Competently done, but nothing special. Every new novel is better than the one before , and A Civil Campaign is a genuine masterpiece (DI was very good too, but not quite as good as ACC). However, I suspect you'll lose a good deal of the overtones of the later books if you hadn't read the earlier ones first.
I actually (after long soul-searching) bought the recent collection of Komarr, ACC and Winterfair Gifts just to get WG. It made my heart bleed, but at least I now have a couple of good books to give to my friends. I just hope I'm wrong about the missing overtones.
Hans
H. Beam Piper, Andre Norton's Solar Queen, Beast Master & some of her other SF series, Poul Anderson's Star Ways & the van Rijn stories, A. Bertram Chandler, Elizabeth Moon's Vatta series, Mike Resnick's Starship & 2 Santiago novels, James White's Sector General, Murray Leinster-particularly his Med Ship stories, Edmond Hamilton's novel Doomstar & the Starwolf series, Keith Laumer's Retief stories, Alan Nourse's novel The Blade Runner, C. L. Moore's Northwest Smith stories, & Harry Harrison's novel's Planet of the the Damned, Deathworld, & Stainless Steel Rat.
Glad to see the Starwolf link. Collected all three when they were first published, but lost the third volume.
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