Hello Timothy,


Nice looking shelf and collection. Which version of Traveller do the bottles belong to?


Tom Rux


On February 1, 2018 at 5:09 AM Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

I've been meaning to do this, for those who've asked, since the start of January, but you know... life.

Anyway, for anyone who cares:
https://twitter.com/timpaa/status/959038972415660032

Some annotation is probably appropriate:

It's all Traveller save for the EC Tubb Dumarest books top right (and, arguably, the three GURPS general books (one 3rd edition and two 4th edition) next to GURPS Traveller[1])

LEFT

1st shelf down - classic Traveller digest sized, JTAS, other magazines/fanzines from the 80s, Signal GK (digest sized), BITS little white books, various novels

2nd shelf down - classic Traveller US letter sized, MegaTraveller, TNE, TNE 1248, Marc Miller's Traveller

3rd shelf down - between the boxed games is 2300AD and Finnish 2300AD
[my very first acquisition was the Deluxe Traveller - the second item from the left end of the shelf]

4th shelf down - miniatures, Traveller dice and t-shirts (forgot to get my two BITs polo shirts out of cupboard for this)  (also forgot to round up two laptop bags and a rucksack and a glass tankard as they live elsewhere - all TravCon freebies from different years)

5th shelf down - GURPS Traveller, T20, coloured document wallets are my 'big' adventures not yet published and my earlier bibliographies (in white) and other bits I've written.

6th shelf down - Mongoose Traveller, 3rd party Mongoose down the right hand end


RIGHT
1st shelf down - Mongoose LBBs, novels and Dumarest

2nd shelf down - FFE cds (and two BITS cds)

3rd shelf down - Mongoose alternate universes

4th shelf down - to the left of Traveller 5 is Stellar Reaches, right of T5 is T5.09, then MgT2, then Cepheus Engine (so Clement Sector gets split between this shelf and the shelf above)

5th shelf down - Japanese Traveller (left top - CT & MT), Mongoose German Traveller, GDW German Traveller; to the right of the Big Floppy Books Swedish fanzine and then Spanish, more Mongoose German and French Traveller

6th shelf down - Judges Guild material (normally live in a bankers box for safety but the box wouldn't quite fit on the shelf), various bits piled up such as the "Lost Supplements" in the brown folder and Michael Brown's one page adventures in the pink folder, The Travellers (in a white document wallet), various individual periodicals in the white bankers box and just above; white mass to the right is Freelance Traveller (usually in nice wooden Ikea bankers boxes) and then my bibliography spirally bound and heat bound March Harrier print outs.  [In lieu of POD for them which TAS doesn't allow :-(   unfortunately]

7th shelf down - three bankers boxes of Challenge, one box of Travellers' Digest, box of Signal GK (A4 sized), box of Traveller Chronicle and other periodicals; the three thin things are Traveller in White Dwarf articles

above the shelves - yes, genuine Traveller beer approved by MWM for various TravCons.  Well, the bottles at least.  Beer long gone.
over on the right - propelling pen/pencil set and thermal mug - TravCon freebies
small cup (PFI), nerf pistol (SEH), large cup (SEH) - awards from TravCon (see After Action Reports in Freelance Traveller)

Sorry it's not higher resolution.  Don't think I can do better.  And of course this doesn't show off the electronic holdings of a lot of recent material.

It also doesn't include the two filing cabinet drawers full of papers and print outs of stuff I've been working on and may or may not ever see the light of day... Now they've been banished to the garage they're even more remote in terms of getting to them  <sigh>

I've got another shelf of other SF rpgs (Blue Planet, Transhuman Space, Mindjammer, Star Trek Adventures, GURPS Vorkosigan and some other SF GURPS books like Space, UltraTech etc) also not shown.  There's also a shelf to the right (out of shot) of 'how to write SF' books and similar which I find a little bit helpful but are mostly focussed on writing fiction.

tc

[1] Alright, you can quibble about the Dark Nebula boxed game as well.  And Thieves World for that matter.

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