Hello Amit -- if you know of any articles or books that ever mentioned Solar Realms Elite (especially if they said it influenced other games, was the first to do something, etc.) it would be very helpful if you could post links or even just citation info over on Wikipedia's discussion page for the game. There are a few young editors pushing to delete the Wiki entries for door games like SRE, as nobody has posted magazine/book article references to show SRE is worth including in Wikipedia. (If you read the talk page for Space Empire Elite, you'll see what I mean, since the issue is being discussed there.)
I hope that you have a good week and can stay fairly dry! (I'm in the North Bay, where it's raining hard.)