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This file is little more than a list of titles to suggest some reading or viewing materials you may find of use either as source material or as inspiration for your "Fading Suns" campaign. I can assure you that elements from each of these has either made, or will soon be appearing in, my own campaign (watch this site for more...).
If there are any sources you feel I have missed please Email me.
Books: Contemporary
Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons - the quintessential "Fading Suns" novels
Dune by Frank Herbert
Engines of God by Jack McDevitt - how to do archaeology in space!
Pavane by Keith Roberts - a classic take on a medieval culture with modern technology
The "Hammer and the Cross" trilogy by Harry Harrison and John Holm - marvellous Viking-age alternative history novels
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - murder & mayhem in the Catholic Church
War in 2020 by Ralph Peters - great near-future war novel
The "Chung Kuo" Series by David Wingrove - It's the Li-Halan sourcebook!
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Armageddon Crazy by Mick Farren
The Men in the Jungle by Norman Spinrad - This is a must-read if you plan on going to Severus!
"Nomad of the Time Streams" by Michael Moorcock - dimension-hopping Hawkwood heroes a-go-go!
"Starship Troopers" and much else by Robert Heinlein
Anything by Isaac Asimov, Stephen Baxter or Ian Watson
Most of the Euchronia Website's content
Books: Comics and Graphic Novels
2000AD (esp. "Nemesis the Warlock" & early "Judge Dredd")
"The Watchmen" by Alan Moore - What happens to warriors with no more war to fight?
"V for Vendetta" by Alan Moore
"The Adventures of Luther Arkwright" by Brian Taylor
Books: Classic
Prisoner of Zenda
1,001 Arabian Nights
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
The Titus Groan Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
The Professor Challenger Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Most of H.G.Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, etc.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anything by Walter C. Scott
The Three Musketeers books by Alexandre Dumas
H.P. Lovecraft (for supernatural horror stories)
Books: Reference
Bulfinch's Mythology: Age of Fable, Age of Chivalry, Legends of Charlemagne
History textbooks from Medieval Period to Present
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances A. Yates
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Act of God by Graham Phillips
The Grail Tradition by John Matthews
Aspects of Aristocracy by David Cannadine
Atlases, city-maps, etc.
Role Playing Materials
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader by Games Workshop
Most of the "Cyberpunk" and "Shadowrun" books by R.Talsorian and FASA
Anything for GDW's "Megatraveller" or WEG's "Star Wars" games
"Once and Future King" and "Kromozone" by TSR
The "Underground" Setting
Films
Science Fiction: Star Wars (the first trilogy, don't touch the execrable "Phantom Menace" with a $#!%%y stick!), Star Trek (I-IX), The Alien Quartet, Predators 1&2, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Dark City
Any of the "Pulp Fiction" action genre (Flash Gordon, The Shadow, The Phantom, The Mummy and especially the Indiana Jones movies)
El Cid, Spartacus and the other "cast of thousands" epics!
Any swashbuckler film (Zorro, Blackbeard, The Crimson Pirate, Cutthroat Island, The Three Musketeers, Cyrano de Bergerac, etc.)
Some westerns (Shane, Serge Lione films, etc.)
War films (Dirty Dozen, Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, etc.)
Akira Kurosawa films (esp. Yojimbo, Sanjiro and Ran)
TV
American: Star Trek (esp. DS9), Babylon 5, Farscape (*ptui!*), X-Files, Stargate SG-1, The Invaders (the old 1960s TV series)
British: Doomwatch, Ultraviolet, Blake's 7, Knights of God
Other Inspiration
Hawkwoods - 19th century Habsburgs or British Monarchy, Pre-Revolutionary
America, the British Raj in India
Hazat - 16th century Spain & South America, Republican Rome, Sparta
Al-Malik - The Abbasid Caliphate, Saladin, Genghis Khan, Timurlane
Decados - 19th century Tzarist and Communist Russia, Genghis Khan, Imperial Rome
Li-Halan - pre-20th century Confucian China, the Nestorian Church, Byzantine Empire
The League - The Hanseatic League, 17th century Holland, Athens under Pericles, Venice & the Italian City States
The Universal Church - The Roman Catholic or Greek/Russian/Armenian/Coptic Orthodox Churches, that's 2000 years of tradition to be playing with at least... :-)
This file last modified 18/02/2001.
