Background
Barnes, was born on March 1, 1952 in Los Angeles, California.
( A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign c...)
A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign called "The South Seas Treasure Game." As in the early Role Playing Games, there are Dungeon Masters, warriors, magicians, and thieves. The difference? At Dream Park, a futuristic fantasy theme park full of holographic attractions and the latest in VR technology, they play in an artificial enclosure that has been enhanced with special effects, holograms, actors, and a clever storyline. The players get as close as possible to truly living their adventure. All's fun and games until a Park security guard is murdered, a valuable research property is stolen, and all evidence points to someone inside the game. The park's head of security, Alex Griffin, joins the game to find the killer, but finds new meaning in the games he helps keep alive.
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( The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the sola...)
The Year: 2085. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system. A stable lunar colony is agitating for independence. Lunar tourism is on the rise.... Against this background, professional "Close Protection" specialist Scotty Griffin, fresh off a disastrous assignment, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to shepherd the teenaged heir to the Republic of Kikaya on a fabulous vacation. Ali Kikaya will participate in the first live action role playing game conducted on the Moon itself. Having left Luna―and a treasured marriage―years ago due to a near-tragic accident, Scotty leaps at the opportunity. Live Action Role Playing attracts a very special sort of individual: brilliant, unpredictable, resourceful, and addicted to problem solving. By kidnapping a dozen gamers in the middle of the ultimate game, watched by more people than any other sporting event in history, they have thrown down an irresistible gauntlet: to "win" the first game that ever became "real." Pursued by armed and murderous terrorists, forced to solve gaming puzzles to stay a jump ahead, forced to juggle multiple psychological realities as they do...this is the game for which they've prepared their entire lives, and they are going to play it for all it's worth.
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A visionary science fiction classic from Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. 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...no matter what it costs. Blending together hard science fiction with virtual reality and 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.
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( Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about ...)
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....
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(Dream Park is the ultimate fantasy experience, where part...)
Dream Park is the ultimate fantasy experience, where participants can play the California Voodoo Game, interacting with holographic images and virtual-reality technology, unaware that they are being used as subjects to test a Martian terraforming project. 35,000 first printing.
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Barnes, was born on March 1, 1952 in Los Angeles, California.
Pepperdine University.
Barnes has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode "Brief Candle" for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode "The Sum of Its Parts". He has had a varied education, including a secondary education at Los Angeles High School.
He continued at Pepperdine University, majoring in Communication Arts.
He is a certified hypnotherapist, trained at the Transformative Arts Institute in San Anselmo, California. The Aubry Knight series:
Street Lethal (1983)
Gorgon Child (1989)
Firedance (1993)
The Heorot series:
The Legacy of Heorot (1987.
With Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
Beowulf"s Children (1995. With Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
The Insh"Allah series:
Zulu Heart (2003)
The "Ibandi" series:
Great Sky Woman (2006)
Shadow Valley (2009)
The Tennyson Hardwick Novels:
Casanegra (2007.
With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)
In the Night of the Heat (2008.
With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)
From Cape Town with Love (2010. With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)
South by Southeast (September 2012. With Blair Underwood and Tananarive Due)
Stand-alone novels, screenplays, and other works:
The Descent of Anansi (1982.
With Larry Niven)
"To See the Invisible Manitoba" (1986.
A television script adapting a short story by Robert Silverberg, for the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone)
The Kundalini Equation (1986)
Fusion (1987) (issues #1–5 only)
Achilles" Choice (1991) (with Larry Niven)
Blood Brothers (1996)
Iron Shadows (1997)
Far Beyond the Stars (1998) (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novelization)
The Lives of Dax: "The Music Between the Notes" (1999)
Saturn"s Race (2000) (with Larry Niven)
Charisma (2002)
The Cestus Deception (2004) (Star Wars novel set in the Clone Wars)
Assassin and Other Stories (2010), a collection, ISFiC Press
The Invisible Imam, a novel included in Assassin and Other Stories.
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( Dream Park, the ultimate in amusement parks, was about ...)
( A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign c...)
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( A visionary science fiction classic from Larry Niven an...)
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