RE: [FT] Fiction / Settings.

Robin Fitton wrote:

 >I am a big Banks fan and I would like to run a campaign in the Banks 
Culture universe. I can remember that in one of his novels earth is 
featured and visited by a >Special Circumstances operative.

The Earth Story (set in 1977) is one of the short stories in the 
collection called "State of the Art". As for maps/stars etc, Banks has 
always been vague on these things in his novels, the best approach would

be to make stuff up, after all the culture itself is a disparate 
collection of orbitals and ships scattered throughout the galaxy as a 
whole. As for wargaming individual vessels which could destroy/shut 
down/sequest an entire enemy fleet 2500 light years away....not sure
how....

 >I am also a follower of Peter Hamilton and would love to find a star 
map / colony outline for his universe. I really like the communist 
Martian colonists from earth!

There is a companion to the Nights Dawn "Universe" that has loads of 
extra details and info but I'm not so sure if any maps are present. 
However as the human space is in a volume of spave 600LY across, and 
travel times between worlds can be obtained from the books themselves, 
creating somekind of star map should be easier for this background than 
the culture setting.

Regards,

Matt Tope