Dream Park

Dream Park
First (limited) edition
AuthorLarry Niven
Steven Barnes
Cover artistRowena Morrill
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherPhantasia Press
Publication date
1981
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages436
ISBN0-932096-09-3

Dream Park is a 1981 sci-fi/murder mystery novel by American writers Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, set in a futuristic amusement park of the same name. It was nominated for the 1982 Locus Award[1] and later expanded into a series of cyberpunk murder mysteries: The Barsoom Project (1989), The California Voodoo Game (1992), and The Moon Maze Game (2011). The books describe a futuristic form of live action role-playing games (LARPs), although the term was not in use when the original novel was published. The novels inspired many LARP groups, notably the International Fantasy Games Society which is named after a fictional entity in the book.[2]

  1. ^ "1982 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
  2. ^ Ifgs.org