Re: Traveller under the influence

The Brinn minor race from Divad (Travellers' Digest 12 or thereabouts...)
are an obvious reference to David Brin - but I don't know if there is
any more correspondence than the name (as I recall they were warlike
methane breathers, somewhat spider-like) - does anyone with a better
knowledge of David Brin's work know if they resemble any aliens he created?
(I've read a fair bit of his stuff, but by no means all...).

Tying in the other thread, I would classify David Brin as an influence for
some of the more recent additions to Traveller (ie. the DGP/Megatraveller
stuff, rather than Classic Traveller). The various terran species "uplifted"
like the dolphins, the various primates etc. by the Solomani match closely
with Brin's novels.

Can't remember any other in-jokes that I may have come across... the above
stuck in my mind because it was so obvious.

See ya 'round.
Corran