Thanks for your posting, hope everyone feels free to ask questions here
on the list.
Try Poul Anderson, maybe a collection of short stories like "Trader to
the Stars" or "The Long Night", both of which I've read and enjoyed.
Although they are a bit dated compared to today's cyberpunk and other
advanced technologies, many of Anderson's ideas seemed to be adopted and
appear in one form or another in Traveller. I especially like how he
brings planetography, starship operation and economics issues to the
stories.
I'll take a look at Brian Aldiss; thanks for the reference. I'm sure
metlay, Cunningham, Mac et al will have lots of sugggested reading. I
particularly like merchant stories.
James
BTW, if anyone wants to post book short reviews of books that seem
particularly parallel to the Traveller universe, please recognize that
this list welcomes such submissions.