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From Traveller Wiki - Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far future

Traveller and the universe it inspired came from many sources.

This page is a list of book, authors, movies and other media that both inspired and was the inspiration for
Traveller and the Third Imperium.
Deciphering the Text Foundations of Traveller (http://www.irosf.com/q/zine/article/10119) by Michael
Andre-Driussi is a discussion of the sources that inspired Traveller.

Contents
1 Description (Specifications)
1.1 Primary Books
1.1.1 Primary Non-Sci-Fi Books
1.2 Primary Movies
1.3 Primary Television
1.4 Secondary Books
1.5 Secondary Movies
1.6 Secondary Television
2 History & Background (Dossier)
2.1 Books
2.1.1 Non-Sci-Fi Books
2.2 Sci-fi RPG Sources
2.3 Video Games
2.4 Movies
2.5 Television Series
3 References & Contributors (Sources)

Description (Specifications)
Primary Inspiration Sources: These books and movies were the Science Fiction that served as the primary
influence on the original Traveller authors.

They are all older SF, some from the 50s and 60s.

Primary Books

Poul Anderson

Flandry series
Ensign Flandry ISBN 1-596-87030-3,

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A Circus of Hells,
The Rebel Worlds,
The Day of Their Return,
Agent of the Terran Empire ISBN 0-743-47952-1,
Flandry of Terra ISBN 0-743-49311-7,
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows ISBN 0-812-52225-7,
A Stone in Heaven,
The Game of Empire, The Long Night),
Polesotechnic League
Trader to the Stars,
The Trouble Twisters ISBN 0-425-05822-0,
Satan's World ISBN 0-425-05851-4,
Mirkheim ISBN 0-425-05863-8)

Issac Asimov

Foundation Trilogy
Foundation ISBN 0-553-29335-4;
Foundation and Empire ISBN 0-553-29337-0;
Second Foundation ISBN 0-553-29336-2;
Foundation's Edge ISBN 0-553-29338-9;
Foundation and Earth ISBN 0-553-58757-9;
Prelude to Foundation ISBN 0-553-27839-8;
Forward the Foundation ISBN 0-553-40488-1)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Carter of Mars series

Joe Haldeman

The Forever War series

The Forever War ISBN 0-312-29890-0;
Forever Peace ISBN 0-441-00406-7;
Forever Free ISBN 0-441-00787-2)

Robert Heinlein

Starship Troopers ISBN 0-450-02576-4,

Moon is a Harsh Mistress ISBN 0-312-86355-1

Frank Herbert

Dune series
Dune ISBN 0-441-01359-7;
Dune Messiah ISBN 0-441-17269-5;
Children of Dune ISBN 0-399-11697-4;
God Emperor of Dune ISBN 0-575-02976-5;
Heretics of Dune ISBN 0-399-12898-0;
Chapterhouse: Dune ISBN 0-399-13027-6)

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Keith Laumer

Bolo series
Bolo;
Bolo: Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade ISBN 0-399-11794-6;
Rogue Bolo ISBN 0-671-65545-0;
The Stars Must Wait ISBN 0-671-69859-1;
The Compleat Bolo ISBN 0-671-69879-6),
Retief series
Retief: Envoy to New Worlds;
Retief: Galactic Diplomat;
Retief's War;
Retief and the Warlords;
Retief: ambassador to space;
Retief: seven incidents of the Corps diplomatique terrestrienne;
Retief of the CDT;
Retief's Ransom;
Retief: Emissary to the Stars;
Retief at Large;
Retief Unbound;
Retief: Diplomat at Arms;
Retief to the Rescue;
Retief: The Return of Retief;
Retief in the Ruins;
Retief and the Pangalactic Pageant of Pulchritude;
Reward for Retief;
Retief and the Rascals

Marc Miller

Agents of the Imperium

Andre Norton

Solar Queen series (Sargasso of Space ISBN 0-441-74981-X; Plague Ship ISBN 1-920-26528-7; Voodoo Planet
ISBN 1-604-50239-8; Postmarked the Stars ISBN 0-441-67555-7; Redline the Stars ISBN 0-812-51986-8; Derelict
for TradeISBN 0-812-55272-5; A Mind for Trade ISBN 0-812-55273-3)

H. Beam Piper

Federation Series (Uller Uprising ISBN 0-441-84292-5; Four-Day Planet ISBN 0-441-24891-8; The Cosmic
Computer ISBN 0-441-11759-7; Space Viking ISBN 0-441-77784-8),
The Complete Fuzzy ISBN 0-441-00581-0

E. C. Tubb

Dumarest of Terra series - A 33 book collection of pure pulp

(1: The Winds of Gath ISBN 978-0441893027;
2: Derai;

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3: Toyman;
4: Kalin;
5: The Jester at Scar ISBN 978-0441385362;
6: Lallia ISBN 978-0441710836;
7: Technos ;
8: Veruchia ISBN 978-0441861811;
9: Mayenne ISBN 978-0879970543;
10: Jondelle;
11: Zenya ISBN 978-0879971267;
12: Eloise ISBN 978-0879971625;
13: Eye of the Zodiac ISBN 978-0879971946;
14: Jack of Swords ISBN 978-0879972394;
15: Spectrum of a Forgotten Sun ISBN 978-0879972653;
16: Haven of Darkness;
17: Prison of Night ISBN 978-0879973469;
18: Incident on Ath ISBN 978-0879973896;
19: The Quillian Sector;
20: Web of Sand ISBN 978-0879974794;
21: Iduna's Universe;
22: The Terra Data ISBN 978-0879975333;
23: World of Promise 978-0879975791;
24: Nectar of Heaven ISBN 978-0879976132;
25: The Terridae;
26: The Coming Event ;
27: Earth is Heaven ISBN 978-0879977863;
28: Melome ISBN 978-0879978310;
29: Angado ISBN 978-0879979089;
30: Symbol of Terra ISBN 978-0879979553;
31: The Temple of Truth ISBN 978-0886770594;
32: The Return ISBN 978-0936071831;
33: Child of Earth ISBN 978-1607255765)

Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon,

In the Year 2889,
Around the World in Eighty Days

H. G. Wells

War of the Worlds,

The Island of Dr. Moreau,
The First Men in the Moon

Primary Non-Sci-Fi Books

C.S. Forrester

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Hornblower series (The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, Flying Colours, The Commodore, Lord
Hornblower, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, Hornblower and the Atropos,
Hornblower in the West Indies, Hornblower and the Hotspur, Hornblower and the Crisis)

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Patrick O'Brian

Aubrey/Maturin series (Master and Commander, Post Captain, H. M. S. Surprise, The Mauritius
Command, Desolation Island, Fortune of War, The Surgeon's Mate, The Ionian Mission, Treason's
Harbour, The Far Side of the World, The Reverse of the Medal, The Letter of Marque, The Thirteen Gun
Salute, The Nutmeg of Consolation, The Truelove, The Wine-Dark Sea, The Commodore, The Yellow
Admiral, The Hundred Days, Blue at the Mizzen)

Primary Movies

2001: A Space Odyssey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622)

The Andromeda Strain (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769)
The Forbidden Planet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223)
Star Wars: A New Hope (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/) - The Original Star Wars movie came
out in May 1977, and Traveller arrived in July 1977.
Silent Running (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756)

Primary Television

Flash Gordon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt002762)

Secondary Inspiration Sources: These collections are later items recommended by the Traveller community.

While they were not around when Traveller was originally written, they do reflect the themes and ideas of
both Traveller and the Third Imperium.

Secondary Books

Ian M. Banks

Culture series (Consider Phlebas ISBN 0-333-44138-9; The Player of Games ISBN 0-333-47110-5; Use of
Weapons ISBN 0-356-19160-5; Excession ISBN 1-85723-394-8; Inversions ISBN 1-85723-763-3; Look to
Windward ISBN 1-85723-981-4; Matter ISBN 978-1-841-494173), Against A Dark Background ISBN
1-85723-179-1)

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Miles Vorkosigan saga (Cordelia's Honor; Young Miles; Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem; Miles Errant;
Miles, Mutants and Microbes; Miles in Love; Vorkosigan's Game)

C. J. Cherryh

Company Wars trilogy (Downbelow Station ISBN 8-470-02376-4; Heavy Time ISBN 0-446-67653-5; Hellburner
ISBN 0-446-67653-5)
Era of Rapprochement series (Serpent's Reach ISBN 0-88677-088-2; Merchanter's Luck ISBN 0-88677-139-0;
Forty Thousand in Gehenna ISBN 0-932096-26-3; Cyteen ISBN 0-446-51428-4; Rimrunners ISBN 0-446-51514-0;
Tripoint ISBN 0-446-51780-1; Finity's End ISBN 0-446-52072-1)

James S. A. Corey

The Expanse series (Leviathan Wakes ISBN 978-0-316-12908-4; Caliban's War ISBN 978-1-841-49990-1;
Abaddon's Gate ISBN 978-0-316-12907-7; Cibola Burn ISBN 978-0-316-21762-0; Nemesis Games ISBN
978-0-316-21758-3; Babylon's Ashes ISBN 978-0-356-50426-1)
Also a Television series: The Expanse

Gordon Dickson

Childe Cycle series (Dorsai!; Necromancer; Soldier, Ask Not; Tactics of Mistake; The Final
Encyclopedia; The Chantry Guild)

David Drake

Hammer's Slammer's series (Hammer's Slammers; At Any Price; Counting the Cost; Rolling Hot; The
Warrior; The Sharp End ; Paying the Piper);
Republic of Cinnabar Navy series (With the Lightnings, Lt. Leary Commanding, The Far Side of the
Stars, The Way to Glory, Some Golden Harbor)

Joe Clifford Faust

Angel's Luck trilogy (Desperate Measures ISBN 0345350200; Precious Cargo ISBN 978-0345360885; The
Essence of Evil ISBN 0-345-36089-3)

Harry Harrison

The Stainless steel rat series:

Bill the galactic hero series.

Richard Morgan

Takeshi Kovacs series (Altered Carbon ISBN 0-575-07390-X; Broken Angels ISBN 0-575-07550-3; Woken
Furies ISBN 0-575-07325-X)

David Weber

Honor Harrington series (On Basilisk Station ISBN 0-671-57793-X; The Honor of the Queen ISBN
0-671-57864-2; The Short Victorious War ISBN 0-671-87596-5 Field of Dishonor ISBN 0-671-57820-0; Flag in
Exile ISBN 0-671-31980-9; Honor Among Enemies ISBN 0-671-87723-2; In Enemy Hands ISBN 0-671-57770-0;
Echoes of Honor ISBN 0-671-57833-2; Ashes of Victory ISBN 0-671-57854-5; War of Honor ISBN 0-7434-3545-1;

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At All Costs ISBN 1-4165-0911-9)

Walter Jon Williams

Dread Empire's fall series (The Praxis ISBN 0-7434-2897-8; The Sundering ISBN 0-7434-2898-6; The
Conventions of War ISBN 0-7432-5677-8)

Secondary Movies

Alien (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748)
Aliens (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt009060)
Outland (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869)
Serenity (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786)
Starship Troopers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496)

Secondary Television

Babylon 5 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946)
Battlestar Galactica (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076984) Original series
Battlestar Galactica (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362) Updated series
Earth 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108758)
Firefly (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461)
Lost in Space (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058824) - The original TV series
Space: 1999 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564)
Space: Above and Beyond (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173)
Star Trek (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028) - The Original Series
Starhunter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250750)
The Expanse (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854) - see also James S. A. Corey in Books

History & Background (Dossier)

Tertiary Inspiration Sources: These are books and other media which are not as closely tied to the Original
Traveller universe for cross fertilization, but are frequently mentioned as good sources for inspiration. Some of
these are implicitly (or explicitly) inspired by Traveller.

Books

Greg Bear

Blood Music

Gregory Benford

Galactic Center Saga (In the Ocean of Night, Across the Sea of Suns, Great Sky River, Tides of Light,
Furious Gulf, Sailing Bright Eternity, A Hunger for the Infinite)

David Brin

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Uplift series (Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's
Reach)

Arthur C. Clarke

Imperial Earth, Rendezvous with Rama, Songs of a Distant Earth

James S.A. Corey

The Expanse Series (Leviathan Wakes,Calibans War, Abaddons Gate, Cibola Burn)

Brian Daley

Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds, Jinx on a Terran Inheritance, Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Joe Clifford Faust

The Essence of Evil, Precious Cargo, Desperate Measures

Robert Frezza

McLendon's Syndrome

Dave Grossman

The Two-Space War, The Guns of Two-Space

Peter F. Hamilton

Greg Mandel sequence,

Night's Dawn Trilogy,
Commonwealth series (Pandora's Star (2004), Judas Unchained (2005), Misspent Youth (2002), The
Dreaming Void (2008), The Temporal Void (2009), The Evolutionary Void (2010))

Chris Hechtl

Wandering Engineer Series (New Dawn, Fool's Gold, Destinys Choice, Ghost Station, Plague Planet)

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Jeffery Kooistra

Dykstra's War

Gregory P. Lee

The Laughing Lip Series (All Shall Go to Wrack, Demand the Debt That's Owing, Long-Remembering
Harpers)

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Dispossessed, Rocannons World, The Word for World is Forest

Nathan Lowell

Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series (Quarter share, Half share, Full share, Double share, Captain
share, Owners share)

Jack McDevitt

Alex Benedict stories (A Talent for War, Polaris, Seeker)

Julian May

Galactic Milieu Series (Surveillance, Metaconcert, Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask, Magnificat),
The Rampart Worlds trilogy (Perseus Spur, Orion Arm, Sagittarius Whorl: An Adventure of the Rampart
Worlds)

Steve Miller and Sharon Lee

Liaden universe

Elizabeth Moon

Vatta's War series

Larry Niven

Known Space collections

John Ringo

Legacy of the Aldenata (Posleen) series

Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Retrieval Artist series (The Disappeared, Extremes, Consequences, Buried Deep, Paloma, The Recovery
Man, Duplicate Effort, The Possession of Paavo Deshin (short novel), Anniversary Day, Blowback)

John Scalzi

Old Man's War

Charles Sheffield

The McAndrew Chronicles

Michael Stackpole
Warrior Trilogy (Warrior: En Garde, Warrior: Riposte Warrior: Coup) - Battletech

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Joan D. Vinge

The Snow Queen, World's End, Summer Queen

Vernor Vinge

A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness In The Sky, Marooned in Realtime

Walter Jon Williams

The Crown Jewels, House of Shards, Rock of Ages

Non-Sci-Fi Books

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince

Sci-fi RPG Sources

2300 AD RPG by GDW

Alternity: Star*Drive RPG
Blue Planet RPG
Fading Suns RPG
GURPS by Steve Jackson Games: GURPS Space, Ultra-Tech, etc.
Ringworld RPG by Chaosium
Serenity RPG by Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd.
Shadowrun RPG by FASA
Space Opera RPG by FGU
SpaceMaster RPG by ICE
Star Frontiers RPG by TSR
Star Hero RPG by Hero Games
Star Wars RPG by West End Games
Stargate SG1 RPG
Transhuman Space RPG by SJG
Universe: The Role-Playing Game of the Future RPG by Simulation Publications, Inc. (SPI)

Video Games

X-com 1 & 2
Starcraft
Starflight 1 & 2
Rebelstar (forerunner to X-Com)
EVE Online
Elite (the original, or Oolite for a modern update)
Mass Effect (you can read the Traveller DNA in it's info Codex)
Halo
Privateer 2

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Movies

The 6th day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt021621)

Apollo 13 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112384)
Apollo 18 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772240)
Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043842) (anime)
Avatar
Battle Beyond the Stars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080421)
Black Hole (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869) (Disney does science)
Blade Runner (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658)
Contact (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884)
Dark Star (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456)
Dune (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182)
Enemy Mine (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362)
Event Horizon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081)
The Fifth Element (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116)
Galaxy Quest (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789)
Ghost in the Shell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568)
Ice Pirates (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049366)
Independence Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629)
The Last Starfighter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597)
Judge Dredd (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113492)
Jupiter Ascending (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1617661)
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113)
Mutiny on the Bounty (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026752)
Outlander (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462465)
Predator (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773)
Riddick Films: Pitch Black (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847), The Chronicles of Riddick
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296572)
The Right Stuff (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197)
Saturn 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079285)
Space Cowboys (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566)
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086346)
Space Truckers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120199)
Starcrash (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079946)
Three Kings (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188)
Titan A.E (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120913)

Television Series

Blake's Seven
Banner of the Stars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387776) (Anime)
Buck Rogers in the 25th century (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078579)
Connections: by James Burke - Not SF but good for how Technology evolves
Cowboy Bebop (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213338) (Anime)

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Crest of the Stars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286390) (Anime)

Dark Matter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4159076)
Earth 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108758)
Farscape (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108758) And Farscape: The Peacekeeper wars
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387736)
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081874) (radio show and TV)
Killjoys (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3952222/)
Planetes (hyper real near-Earth space anime)
Red Dwarf (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094535)
Space: Above and Beyond (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173)
Stargate SG1 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118480) and Stargate: Atlantis (http://www.imdb.com/title
/tt0374455)
Star Trek - The Next Generation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455)
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106145)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458290) (Animated)
Star Wars Rebels (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2930604) (Animated)
Tytania (Anime, subtitled only)
UFO (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063962) (best TV theme music EVER)

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Author & Contributor: Traveller Wiki Editorial Team

Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the
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