Dream Park
by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes
science fiction
copyright 1983
read in July 2024
rated 6/10: read to pass the time
This book is fantasy -- based on scientific marvels. You know, it all seems like magic.
As I read it I thought, What a load of rubbish.
Yet there is a thread of logic to the plot, there is a crime to be solved.
The book's action is two authors having a lot of fun. Imagining "what if" -- and drifting well off into fantasy.
The characters are stock-standard fictional Americans. Fighting monsters and pausing for picnic, pizza, beer, sex and skinny-dipping. With some interpersonal upsets along the way.
Having fought off the monsters, the final pages get back to solving the crime. Though by now, with more than thirty major characters, I'm so confused that I don't really care who dun it.
The final denouement comes with a message about consequences and responsibility. Which is where I accepted that the central plot did have some logic and relevance.
Finally, after reading the authors' afterword, my impression shifted from only readable to, a good author's attempt to write for a more modern, 1980s. audience
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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