This is an excellent near-future mystery, with some science fiction flavor. Dream Park is the amusement park of the future, where holograms, sound and even smell make the attractions real enough for real time, live adventures. Disney is still dreaming about these technologies. This is mostly a mystery, but the technology makes it fascinating. ( )

This is the novel that got me into fantasy gaming - a tremendously exciting yet thought-provoking look at the psychology of game playing, packaged in an adventure novel. Throw in a murder mystery and you've got a little something for everyone. I've read this three times over the years, and appreciate it more with each subsequent reading. ( )

A highly entertaining book, particularly for rpg geeks I guess. Dream Park is a huge live action role playing game complex, where players participate in games, complete with character stats, and holographic and computer assisted abilities.

Character classes, gamemasters, the whole thing. The Dream Park management have discovered evidence of a crime, so they have to put one of their security operatives undercover in a game.

The problem is that the game is an epic, a confrontation between two world class gamemasters and a famous party leading adventurer.

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Perhaps I just don't understand what's so compelling about this story, or any story, riddled with ungrammatical clichés. One star for the premise. ( )