The California Voodoo Game

Name: The California Voodoo Game
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Larry Niven
ISBN: 9781538491645

Author: Larry Niven, Steven Barnes

Series: Dream Park Series #3

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 14 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/23/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about to embark on the greatest game ever: the California Voodoo Game. Across the world bets were being placed; fortunes and reputations hung in the balance. Gaming careers would be made—or destroyed. And the most advanced software package ever invented was going to be tested.But one of the players was a murderer—and worse. Only Alex Griffin, head of Dream Park Security, and Game Master Tony McWhirter guessed the extent of the treachery tainting the Game. Somehow, they had to catch the killer—but above all, the Game must go on …

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the New York Times bestselling and multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series and The Burning City, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces.

About Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels of science fiction, horror, and suspense. The Image, Endeavor and Cable-Ace award-winning author also writes for television, including The Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda and an Emmy Award winning episode of The Outer Limits.

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, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gilbert on April 26, 2019

The California Voodoo Game didn’t quite live up to the standard set by the first two books in this series. The outside the game mystery was quite intriguing, but the “game” storyline, for the first time in the series, never quite captured my interest. The California Voodoo Game is the title of the l......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 15, 2008

The third in Niven & Barnes' Dream Park series, this book was hindered by a cast almost too large to keep track of, and a dramatic change in the technology of the setting that was quite jarring to me, and in my opinion, a step backwards. The first two books featured holographic "Kruegeresque" VR tec......more