On 15 February 2017 at 02:56, Douglas Berry <dberry49xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

We went to a travel show last weekend, and i picked up a fun book. Which should a gold mine for adventure and setting ideas.

It's "Don't Go There - The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World"

Disease, corruption, crime, foul dens and dangerous roads. If you can't dress a dozen backwater worlds from this book, you ain't trying.

Thanks for the tip.  Now looking that out.

In a not too dissimilar vein, I can recommend:

Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry

by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch

You may be able to detect from the title (and the branding: jetlag travel guide) that this is essentially a spoof of all those travel guides that festoon certain shelves in bookshops.  As Bill Bryson says on the cover, it's very very funny.

And, again, if you can't extract grist for your Traveller world building mill from it, you're not trying!

Also, someone over on Facebook I think it was, mentioned National Geographic's _Interstellar: The Science & Secrets of Solar Systems_.  I thought it was proving rather hard to find (small newsagent near work, Amazon, internet, large book buying database I have access to at work) but I've just wandered into my small village which has a newsagent with a pretty decent magazine collection and it was there.  Not cheap at £7.99 but some terrific images (as you'd expect), some interesting descriptions of various system features you could easily drop into a scouting expedition or whathaveyou, and maybe just a tiny bit less science than I might have hoped for from the title (though it's not bad) - maybe I'm just spoiled by some game books!

Hope this helps

tc

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