I alluded to a C.J.Cherryh mailing list in a previous message.
I've had a few inquiries (one of which I lost) so I'll post a general
message.
The Cherryh List is maintained through "[email removed]".
Send mail there asking to be subscribed. It is distributed more or
less daily and maintains an archive on walton.maths.tcd.ie in the
pub/jaymin/cherryh directory.
There are several items that might be of interest to traveller
players there. There are several GIF pictures from the covers of
various novels and games. There is a version of rules for the
StarChase game and a Windows Cherryh Ship Design program (quite strongly
based on the MegaTraveller ship design rules :-). There are a few
star maps and lists of ship designations.
For those who aren't familiar with Cherryh, her SF universe
(known as Union/Alliance/Compact) is quite similar to traveller. The
ships take a long time to jump between stars and information travels
at the same speed. There are even furry cats with gender distinctions
very similar to Aslan. What hit me hardest when first reading her is
"This *feels* like Traveller". I really don't know if Cherryh had an
influence on early Traveller or early Traveller had an influence on
Cherryh (or if it is all some vast coincidence).
On the list some topics of interest are the mechanics of her ships,
how one might run a game in her setting, and general ship design
and fleet use strategy.
[Just to clear up some confusion, my mailing address is
technically "[email removed]". I am now working for Lotus, Ireland
and have e-mail at work: "[email removed]". At
the moment sending to jaymin reflects to jo_grant (and thus I get
it twice). If you have a quick query and are fond of typing long
addresses go ahead and mail jo_grant. Otherwise send most things
to jaymin. And yes, both of us are really Jo Jaquinta. I've taken
Grant as a married name which is much easier to deal with in Ireland!]
Jo Grant