Agent of the Imperium

As a longtime RPG player, I'm always on the lookout for fiction set in milieux in which I've played. IMHO, there is a serious lack of this, for some reason - more information about a setting makes it much easier to play in it. Traveller suffers more than most, so when I heard that its inventor Marc......more

Surprisingly good book by a first time novelist. An innovative premise lets us travel to a number of iconic places and events in the history of the Traveller Universe in a way that makes sense. Episodic at first, some plot threads develop to tie things together as the story goes on. There are some ma......more

Marc Miller's Agent of the Imperium is a decent sci-fi novel, and given that it is (by design) tightly tied to a TTRPG universe created by the same author, the book is considerably better than it needs to be. By that, I mean that since Miller has a built-in audience of Traveller players, he could ea......more

Given that this is a book based on a table-top game, written by a first-time author, it really exceeded expectations. The premise was very cool, and ended up letting the book do some of the fun, "oh they're referencing something I already read about" stuff that usually only works in a long series. D......more

It was an interesting book, but I feel it suffered with too many problems for me to really enjoy it. I have been a fan of the SF Role Playing Game "Traveller" since the late 1970s. The idea of a novel from the game's creator interested me as I hoped there would be insights into the universe of Travel......more