Author | Larry Niven Steven Barnes |
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Cover artist | Rowena Morrill |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Phantasia Press |
Publication date | 1981 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 436 |
ISBN | 0-932096-09-3 |
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]