Traveller reference in a novel

[Spinward Scout]

Had to put this one up. I think it was posted on Zhodani Base. Traveller reference in a novel.

http://stagingpoint.com/2012/04/23/this-is-free-trader-beowulf-calling-anyone

 

[LeperColony]

You might like this, from the TNE forums.


TNE: Smash and Grab, page 89. Roger Sterling, Captain of the Mackenzie. Motivations are sociability and greed (lustful). Considers women to be "God's gift to him."

Mad Men: Roger Sterling, partner of various ad agencies and former officer in the USN. Sociable skirt chaser.

Coincidence, or TNE fan in the Mad Men writing room?

 

[Spinward Scout]

I doubt it's a coincidence. Both Matthew Weiner, writer of Mad Men, and Joss Whedon, writer of Firefly, went to Wesleyan University around the same time. They are only a year apart in age. Whedon has said he wrote Firefly based on a role-playing game he played in college. That rpg is most likely Traveller. I'd bet good credits that Matthew Weiner was part of that rpg group, too. They were probably both in the same writing classes together.

 

[Shonner]

I just read Foundation. Lots of stuff in there that Traveller took. But this is the reverse of what you were asking.