- The Observer's Book of Aircraft,
- Pierre Boule's Les Oreilles de Jungle,
- Swift's Gulliver's Travels,
- Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac,
- Larry Niven's Ringworld (not the others in the trilogy),
- Mary Stewart's books on King Arthur (novels, but fun),
- H.F. Heard's Dopplegangers (it has NOTHING to do with astronauts),
- Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast,
- Andre Langevin's Une chaine dans le parc,
- Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World,
- A.C. Clarke's Childhood's End,
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
- Frank Herbert's Dune,
- Oliver Statler's Japanese Inn,
- Jean Markale's L'epopee celtique d'Irlande,
- R.E. Howard's Conan books (and some from others),
- J. Blish's A Case of Conscience and the Cities in Flight series, (most
Traveller players don't seem to be aware of the influence Blish has had
on the game - he rules!),
- Dan Simmons' Hyperion,
- Philip K. Dick's Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep,
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings,
- E.R. Burroughs' John Carter of Mars series (I never bought into the
Tarzan thing, sorry :),
- F, Pohl's (too numerous :),
- P. Suskind's The Perfume,
- Honoré de Balzac,
- Emile Zola,
- H.P. Lovecraft,
- Marcel Aymé's La Vouivre,
- P. Anthony's Xanth series,
- J. Higgins' The Eagle Has Landed (Good movie too),
- J. Irving's The World According to Garp (Better than the movie, not
one of Robin Williams' best roles :),
- David Brin's Uplift Series (particularly Startide Rising),
- N. Gaiman and T. Pratchett's Good Omens.