Traveller-esque Books

Mike Basinger [email removed] says:

>I'm looking for some sci-fi novels that have a Traveller-Like
>background to them (government, techonolgy, etc...)...

To which Peter H. Brenton [email removed] replies (in part):

>Although the technology was not identical, The novel "Glory Road"
>by Melissa Scott had a definite traveller feel.
>
  Melissa Scott has an earlier trilogy which, though it uses "magic"
instead of technology, is very Traveller-esque.  These three books
are:
  Five-Twelfths of Heaven
  Silence in Solitude
  The Empress of Earth

  These books had been collected by the SF Book Club as "The Roads of
Heaven", but they no longer offer it, and the paperbacks aren't really
common either, but they are worth the search, in my opinion.


Other books to look for:

  The "Angel's Luck" trilogy by Joe Clifford Faust.  Consists of
"Desperate Measures", "Precious Cargo" and "The Essence of Evil".

  "Antares Dawn" and "Antares Passage" by Michael McCollum.

  "Brightsuit MacBear" and "Taflak Lysandra" by L. Neil Smith.  The
rest of his Confederacy books are fun as well, but not really in the
nature of Traveller.  These are "The Probability Broach", "Nagasaki
Vector", "The Venus Belt", "Tom Paine Maru", "Their Majesties
Bucketeers", and "The Gallatin Divergence".

  The Barrayar books by Lois McMaster Bujold: "Shards of Honor",
"Barrayar", "The Warrior's Apprentice", "The Vor Game", "Ethan of Athos",
"Borders of Infinity", "Brothers in Arms", and the far-prequel "Falling
Free".  I highly recommend the whole set.

  "The Heart of the Comet" by Benford and Brin.

  "The McAndrew Chronicles" by Charles Sheffield.

  "On Basilisk Station" by David Weber.  There may by others in this
series that I am unaware of.

  "Starrigger", "Paradox Alley", and "Red Limit Freeway" by John
DeChancie.

  The Skyrider series by Melisa Michaels: "First Battle", "Last War",
"Pirate Prince", "Skirmish", and "Floater Factor".

  Jefferson Swycaffer's Concordat series, for which I don't have a
comlete list.

  Poul Anderson's Terran Empire (or "Flandry") series and his
Polesotechnic League (or "Falkayn & van Rijn") series, which are
connected by a mutual timeline, and the "Psychotechnic League"
series, which stands alone.

  Larry Niven's Known Space (Ringworld et al.).

  Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth (or "Flinx") series.

  Brian Daley's "Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds", "Jinx on a Terran
Inheritance", and "Fall of the White Ship Avatar".  Good stuff.

  E.C.Tubb's Dumarest of Terra serial (LOTS of books).

  Most of Andre Norton's SF, notably the Dane Thorson cycle:
"Sargasso of Space", "Plague Ship", "Voodoo Planet", "Postmarked the
Stars" as well as the stand-alone "Star Guard".


  Whew!  That's enough.

James Kundert [email removed]

There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was much faster, much faster than Light.
She departed one day in a relative way,
And returned on the previous Night.
   --Albert & the Heart of Gold