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* {{Heavyworlder}}: Charlene Dula and other visitors from Falling Angels are inversions.
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* ThemeParkVersion: Literally applies to the Games' depictions of New Guinea, Inuit, and Voodoo traditions.traditions.
* WeirdSun: In the Fimbulwinter Game, the Sun has shrunk so much that a Gamer from the asteroid belt thinks it looks normal-sized. When the Gamers travel to the Inuit spirit-world to correct this, they realize that [[spoiler: the missing Creator-spirit, Raven, has been bound to the spirit-Sun's surface]].
* WeirdSun: In the Fimbulwinter Game, the Sun has shrunk so much that a Gamer from the asteroid belt thinks it looks normal-sized. When the Gamers travel to the Inuit spirit-world to correct this, they realize that [[spoiler: the missing Creator-spirit, Raven, has been bound to the spirit-Sun's surface]].
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Kareem Fekesh
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* SpaceElevator: In ''The Barsoom Project'', Cowles Industries host a major conference to recruit nations' and other megacorps' support of a Mars-terraforming program that would use a SpaceElevator in its operation. The possibility of building one on Earth after a Martian version has been proven safe and reliable is also discussed.
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* SpaceElevator: In ''The Barsoom Project'', Cowles Industries host a major conference to recruit nations' and other megacorps' support of a Mars-terraforming program that would use a SpaceElevator in its operation. The possibility of building one on Earth after a Martian version has been proven safe and reliable is also discussed.discussed, and may be the reason why [[spoiler: Ecuador took an interest in [=MIMIC=] in the third novel]].
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* TheMerch: The Games themselves aren't profitable, but the sale of Game-based films, tie-in books, home-holoprojector versions of scenarios, and so forth makes them a cash cow for Cowles.
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* {{Megacorp}}: Cowles Industries, which owns Dream Park, is by far the most influential company in post-Quake California.
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* EndlessWinter: The Fimbulwinter Game takes place on an Earth where the sun is shrinking due to evil magic and humanity is faced with a planet-wide winter.
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** The opening act of the Fimbulwinter Game has the Gamers fleeing a horde of cannibals.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Kasan Maibang doesn't deny his Daribi fellows are cannibals. Many of the [[spoiler: Fore zombies]] died of kuru, which they're implied to have contracted this way.
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* JuryOfTheDamned: ''The Barsoom Project'' features a sequence where the Gamers are put on trial by the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifestations]] of humanity's sins and crimes, as defined by the literal themepark version of the Eskimo religion.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own adventurous plotline, playing out alongside the espionage plot happening behind the Park scenes.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own adventurous plotline, playing out alongside the espionage plot happening behind the Park scenes.scenes.
* ThemeParkVersion: Literally applies to the Games' interpretations of New Guinea, Inuit, and Voodoo traditions.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Skip O'Brien]]
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* GasChamber: Used in ''The Barsoom Project'' [[spoiler: to eliminate Fekesh]].
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* TheScottishTrope: Heroes participating in the [[ShowWithinAShow South Seas Treasure Game]] from ''Dream Park'' were barred from speaking the name of the enemy New Guinea tribe, as using an enemy's name or magic without permission would invite retribution by supernatural forces. Subverted in that the ''players'' could name the [[spoiler: Fore tribe]] as much as they liked, so long as they did so when the Game was on hold for time-outs or overnight.
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* TheScottishTrope: Heroes participating in the [[ShowWithinAShow South Seas Treasure Game]] from ''Dream Park'' were barred from speaking the name of the enemy New Guinea tribe, as using an enemy's name or magic without permission would invite retribution by supernatural forces. Subverted in that the ''players'' could name the [[spoiler: Fore tribe]] as much as they liked, so long as they did so when the Game was on hold for time-outs or overnight.
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* CaliforniaCollapse: The Quake of '85.
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* DeweyBeatsTruman: The Quake of 1985, which had to be re-scheduled for 1995 by the third novel. When it didn't happen then either, the series became AlternateHistory.
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* DeweyBeatsTruman: DeweyDefeatsTruman: The Quake of 1985, which had to be re-scheduled for 1995 by the third novel. When it didn't happen then either, the series became AlternateHistory.
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* DeweyBeatsTruman: The Quake of 1985, which had to be re-scheduled for 1995 by the third novel. When it didn't happen then either, the series became AlternateHistory.
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* {{Arcology}}: The California Voodoo Game takes place inside MIMIC (Meacham Incorporated Mojave Industrial Community), a massive one-building city which was built during the 1990s. It was so badly damaged by The Quake that it had to be abandoned. It was later acquired by Dream Park and used as the basis for the Barsoom Project--the {{terraform}}ing of Mars.
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* MercyMode: Some Games, besides a standard version, are also re-engineered as "Fat Rippers" designed to help participants lose weight or overcome other dependencies. Because their players are usually out-of-shape, distances to be traveled on foot are reduced [[spoiler: and nobody gets killed out until the last day to ensure they have more time to learn better habits]].
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* BargainWithHeaven: In ''The Barsoom Project'', Yarnall is a game actor who becomes "stranded" in a live-action adventure game due to sabotage. He makes a bet with the Game Master that he won't be killed out by the end of the day, and the Game Master seals the deal by sending a (holographic) heavenly arm to reach down from the clouds so they can shake on it.
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* BargainWithHeaven: In ''The Barsoom Project'', Yarnall is a game actor who becomes "stranded" in a live-action adventure game the Fimbulwinter Game due to sabotage. He makes a bet with the Game Master that he won't be killed out by the end of the day, and the Game Master seals the deal by sending a (holographic) heavenly arm to reach down from the clouds so they can shake on it.
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* BargainWithHeaven: In ''The Barsoom Project'', Yarnall is a game actor who becomes "stranded" in a live-action adventure game due to sabotage. He makes a bet with the Game Master that he won't be killed out by the end of the day, and the Game Master seals the deal by sending a (holographic) heavenly arm to reach down from the clouds so they can shake on it.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Tony [=McWhirter=]]] infiltrates the Park's R&D lab while posing as an ordinary Gamer.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Tony [=McWhirter=]]] infiltrates the Park's R&D lab while posing as an ordinary Gamer.Gamer, and Griffin takes on the role of a Gamer to identify the culprit. In-game, one of the bearers for the South Sea Treasure Game is a spy for the enemy.
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* TheMole: [[spoiler: Tony [=McWhirter=]]] infiltrates the Park's R&D lab while posing as an ordinary Gamer.
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* BecomingTheMask: Griffin eventually finds himself falling into his role as one of the adventurers in ''Dream Park''. Eviane from ''The Barsoom Project'' deludes herself that the Fimbulwinter Game is really happening.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own adventurous plotline, which takes place in the background of a scifi/espionage plot.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own adventurous plotline, which takes place in playing out alongside the background of a scifi/espionage plot.espionage plot happening behind the Park scenes.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own fantasy-themed plotline, which takes place in the background of a scifi/espionage plot.
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* TheScottishTrope: Heroes participating in the [[ShowWithinAShow South Seas Treasure Game]] from ''Dream Park'' were barred from speaking the name of the enemy New Guinea tribe, as using an enemy's name or magic without permission would invite retribution by supernatural forces. Subverted in that the ''players'' could name the [[spoiler: Fore tribe]] as much as they liked, so long as they did so when the Game was on hold for time-outs or overnight.
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* TheScottishTrope: Heroes participating in the [[ShowWithinAShow South Seas Treasure Game]] from ''Dream Park'' were barred from speaking the name of the enemy New Guinea tribe, as using an enemy's name or magic without permission would invite retribution by supernatural forces. Subverted in that the ''players'' could name the [[spoiler: Fore tribe]] as much as they liked, so long as they did so when the Game was on hold for time-outs or overnight.overnight.
* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own fantasy-themed plotline, which takes place in the background of a scifi/espionage plot.
* ShowWithinAShow: Each novel features a major Game with its own fantasy-themed plotline, which takes place in the background of a scifi/espionage plot.
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* BellyButtonless: In ''The Barsoom Project'', Martin Qaterliaraq is an Inuit shaman character in the Fimbulwinter Game. His lack of a navel is an early indication that his character was crafted from molded lava by the Raven, not born.
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The first novel, ''Dream Park'', has been a CultClassic beloved of role-players since 1981. Later books in the series include ''The Barsoom Project'' (1989), ''The California Voodoo Game'' (1992), and ''The Moon Maze Game'' (2012).
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The first novel, ''Dream Park'', has been a CultClassic beloved of role-players since 1981. Later books in the series include ''The Barsoom Project'' (1989), ''The California Voodoo Game'' (1992), and ''The Moon Maze Game'' (2012).
(2012). The non-Park-related novel ''The Descent of Anansi'' is set in the same Verse.
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** The novels' game-regulating organization, the IFGS, actually has been Defictionalized into a [=LARP=]ing club that stages its games outdoors.
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** The novels' game-regulating organization, the IFGS, actually has been Defictionalized into a [=LARP=]ing club that stages its games outdoors.outdoors.
* TheScottishTrope: Heroes participating in the [[ShowWithinAShow South Seas Treasure Game]] from ''Dream Park'' were barred from speaking the name of the enemy New Guinea tribe, as using an enemy's name or magic without permission would invite retribution by supernatural forces. Subverted in that the ''players'' could name the [[spoiler: Fore tribe]] as much as they liked, so long as they did so when the Game was on hold for time-outs or overnight.
* TheScottishTrope: Heroes participating in the [[ShowWithinAShow South Seas Treasure Game]] from ''Dream Park'' were barred from speaking the name of the enemy New Guinea tribe, as using an enemy's name or magic without permission would invite retribution by supernatural forces. Subverted in that the ''players'' could name the [[spoiler: Fore tribe]] as much as they liked, so long as they did so when the Game was on hold for time-outs or overnight.
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* {{Defictionalization}}: Averted; the fan-created corporation intended to establish such a park went bankrupt in 1999, although the [=MagiQuest=] live-action adventure franchise could be called Dream Park's SpiritualLicensee.
** The novels' game-regulating organization, the IFGS, actually has been Defictionalized into a [=LARP=]ing club that stages its games outdoors.
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A GenreBlending scifi/mystery/fantasy/[=LARP=]ing series by LarryNiven and Steven Barnes, the Dream Park novels take place in and around a futuristic theme park dedicated to hyper-realistic simulation games, illusions, thrill rides and "experiences" that put {{Disneyland}} to shame. Central to each novel are the Park's spectacular live-action Game events, based on exotic mythologies or realms of fiction, in which both GenreSavvy veteran Gamers and wide-eyed novices live out elaborate adventures against a backdrop of Park actors, animatronic perils, and interactive holograms. Meanwhile, behind the fantasy-game curtain, industrial espionage and sabotage within the Park's operations pose deadly challenges of their own.
The first novel, ''Dream Park'', has been a CultClassic beloved of role-players since 1981. Later books in the series include ''The Barsoom Project'' (1989), ''The California Voodoo Game'' (1992), and ''The Moon Maze Game'' (2012).
!!Tropes featured in the Dream Park novels include:
The first novel, ''Dream Park'', has been a CultClassic beloved of role-players since 1981. Later books in the series include ''The Barsoom Project'' (1989), ''The California Voodoo Game'' (1992), and ''The Moon Maze Game'' (2012).
!!Tropes featured in the Dream Park novels include:
