Dream Park

Name: Dream Park
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Niven
ISBN: 9781538491508

Author: Larry Niven, Steven Barnes

Series: Dream Park Series #1

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 11/07/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign called “the South Seas Treasure Game.” As in the early role-playing games, there are dungeon masters, warriors, magicians, and thieves. The difference? At Dream Park, a futuristic fantasy theme park full of holographic attractions and the latest in VR technology, they play in an artificial enclosure that has been enhanced with special effects, holograms, actors, and a clever story line. The players get as close as possible to truly living their adventure.All’s fun and games until a park security guard is murdered, a valuable research property is stolen, and all evidence points to someone inside the game. The park’s head of security, Alex Griffin, joins the game to find the killer, but finds new meaning in the games he helps keep alive.

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.

About Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a prolific author and scriptwriter who has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Cable ACE, and Endeavour awards. His work for television includes episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1, and Andromeda. A lifelong student of human-performance technologies, he holds black belts in judo and karate, has an instructor certificate in Circular Strength Training, and is a trained hypnotherapist.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by P. Aaron on July 26, 2012

This book is not very deep. It has little artistry. It will not make you a better person. It will not attend our sorrow. It will not console our children. It will not be able to help us. But holy crow is it fun. This is, for my money, the most sheer fun I've ever had reading a book. It's absolute popc......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 31, 2022

Monstrous, murky mixture maddens minds Prolific author Larry Niven, famous for the Ringworld series and a lot more, has lived long enough to see pieces of his fictional worlds turn into reality. For me, his novels are “far out” and full of fantasy mixed with pieces of reality. “DREAM PARK” is no diff......more

Goodreads review by Ouranosaurus on September 19, 2014

An odd book, re-read recently during a moment of nostalgia. Dream Park was written in the early 1980s, and its age shows in a couple of different ways. There's the obvious - people smoking indoors in the workplace – and the subtle. Dream Park was written when RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons were relativ......more

Goodreads review by Marvin on June 22, 2012

First of all, Kudos for the incredible cover art by Rowena on the Phantasia Press first limited edition... You can be forgiven if you think the cover art is a bit campy, for Dream Park is a campy novel. Written during the height of the Dungeons & Dragons craze, it depicts an amusement park in whi......more

Goodreads review by Ralph on December 26, 2020

Read this when I was 15 and blew my mind. Complete nostalgia 3 star even though it was filled with more absurdity than I remembered. Also the ending was a truly WTF moment. Contemplating reading the series though I'll be more critical.......more

Quotes

“Unadulterated wish fulfillment.” Locus