>>I have a separate box easily accessible that has my first edition
LBB and the Best of JTAS #1 in which I found a two magazines and a
>I've been digging through some of the bankers boxes on my shelves and
being reminded about treasures too. Always fun! Had completely
forgotten I >had issues 3-6 of _Jumpspace_ which I was only wondering about
yesterday.
The furthest I have gotten is the easily accessible box, the other box in
my room is buried under a layer or two of books.
>>adventure. The first was published by San Diego State University
students, which had something about the space shuttle back in 1981, but nothing
>>Traveller related.
>OK, phew. Don't have to worry about that then. (Not, I'm
sure that it wouldn't be interesting - but I have to draw the line at some
point.)
Well, I picked up the magazine when I gamed on campus to kind of support
two cousins attending the college and got me into one of their gaming days while
stationed at FLTASWTRACENPAC (Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center
Pacific) as an instructor. The space shuttle was the main reason I got the
magazine.
>>The second magazine is Alien Star Issue 6 December 1981 published
in the UK. The adventure is titled The Evening Star with a copyright of 1979.
>>Both of these are Traveller related, have they been incorporated into
your material?
>Yes, fortunately I have Alien Star #6 (anyone looking to sell #1-3 or
#7 & 9? I have 8 but the cover is half missing). That will
appear in any future >periodical bibliography that covers all the old classic
fanzines.
Now I’m really looking forward to the next editions of the
bibliographies.
>The Evening Star is included in the Traveller Bibliography (p.12) - at
least I assume it's the same thing. You describe it as an adventure
although I had >it listed under 'astrography: worlds' as, if my notes are
correct it's mostly a world description (well, space colony) with a short sample
scenario >included.
I was inaccurate in calling “The Evening Star” an adventure I should have
quoted the first sentence under the heading of How to Use the Evening Star
“...to be a setting for the play of role-playing science fiction campaigns.” My
second look at the book today (04/19) resulted in discovering that I don’t have
the deck plan.
>But thanks for spotting them both. Always happy to hear of
material I might not have or might not know about. I appreciate it's a
mug's game, but >would like to *think* my bibliographies were as exhaustive
as they could be. It's quite interesting looking at the liminal items and
considering why >things make the cut (or don't).
I have found that your bibliographies are extremely good for finding
Traveller material in my collection. Thank you for putting them together, which
has saved me a lot of time looking up information.
>While I'm here... for everyone else:
>would you prefer a magazine bibliography of
>- all the old, sometimes pretty low quality or obscure, classic
Traveller articles from way back
>- or the more current stuff in the 'mainstream' periodicals such as
online JTAS, Freelance Traveller [1], Stellar Reaches and so on?
>Eventually I'd love to do them all, but which would be more useful in
the first instance if I tried to break the (massive) job up a bit?
>A resounding silence might encourage me to do something more productive
with life...
>tc
>[I should note the excellent work Jeff Z does on indexing FT which may
well be enough for those who need it) Although not of course the same
;-)
My vote is to have a magazine/periodical
bibliography covering as much of the old stuff as can be found. I noticed that
achieve.org has some Traveller magazines I never got to see back then. Of
course some of the material I did see was not purchased sue to lack of
funds.