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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4600862" data-attributes="member: 19675">I picked up gaming (at that point, just D&D) in 1977 at the age of 10, and my original inspiration in RPGs were the Iliad, the Odyssey, Greek/Roman/Norse mythology, JRRT, Moorcock, deCamp, Poe, Lovecraft, Brackett, Niven, Piers Anthony and Lieber.  I'd read a smattering of Howard and othersWhen I discovered Traveller 2 years later, I was able to put all my sci-fi readings into my role-play arsenal- Heinlein, Clarke, Kornbluth, Clement, Blish and others.Now?  Well, too many to list, really, but some high points (besides some of those mentioned above) include:Harry Turtledove (unparalleled alt-history fiction and the in-freaking-credible Darkness series), Bruce Sterling, SM Stirling, Neil Gaiman, Terry Brooks, Terry Pratchett, CJ Cherryh (esp. the Sword of Knowledge trilogy), Mary Gentle, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz (the Odd Thomas books), Stephen King, Barbara Hambly (fboth antasy & the Ben January murder mysteries), Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kurt Giambastiani, and a host of talent in F&SF Magazine (<a href="http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/" target="_blank">http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/</a>), like the wonderfully inventive Albert E. Cowdrey and Matthew Hughes.</blockquote>