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The Barsoom Project: A Dream Park Novel

Larry Niven

The Barsoom Project is the direct sequel to 1981's Dream Park. Eviane's first visit to the-state-of-art amusement arena Dream Park ended in disaster: the special effects had seemed more real than life... until the holograms she was shooting with live ammunition turned out to be solid flesh and blood... and very, very dead.

Haunted by the past, rebounding from a lengthy spell in a mental hospital, she has returned to Dream Park to exorcise a nightmare that has become reality. But in Dream Park, nothing is what it seems. The Inuit mythology controlling the images is part of a "Fat Ripper Special" designed to implant new behavioral memes. The players are struggling against the game master, one another, and their own demons. And there is a killer who wants to ensure Eviane never regains her memory...noo matter what it costs.

Blending together hard science fiction with topical RPG-like fantasy games, The Barsoom Project is SF at the cutting edge and a classic creation from two of the genre's most beloved writers.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Tor Books
  • Publish Date: Nov 23rd, 2010
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 6.00in - 0.80in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9780765326683
  • Categories: Science Fiction - Hard Science FictionClassics

About the Author

Niven, Larry: - Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces and fantasy including the Magic Goes Away series. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
Barnes, Steven: - Steven Barnes is a New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award-nominated author of Twelve Days among other novels, a screenwriter, and creator of the Lifewriting(TM) writing course, which he has taught nationwide. He won an NAACP Image Award as coauthor of the Tennyson Hardwick mystery series with his spouse, Tananarive Due, and actor Blair Underwood.

Praise for this book

Praise for Larry Niven

"Niven is a galaxy-class storyteller."
--"Time Magaine
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""Great storytelling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven."
--Orson Scott Card "One of our finest . . . Jams ideas for several novels into each one he creates."
--"The Seattle Times
""The premier hard SF writer of the day."
--"Baltimore"" Sun
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