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Title: The Barsoom Project by Larry Niven, Steven Barnes ISBN: 0-441-16712-8 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: If you're looking for good Sci Fi, keep looking
Comment: I read and enjoyed the other two books in this series, Dream Park and California Voodoo Game before I even knew this book existed. I was surprised and pleased to discover a third book that fell between the two. Unfortunately, The Barsoom Project was a huge let-down.

It reads as if Niven and Barnes wrote an OK outline for a novel but never bothered to put any effort into the actual writing. For example, some information that is very important to the plot is revealed in a monolog by a character that is supposedly so drunk, he can't control what he's saying. Yet he manages to express it all in complete, neatly constructed, coherent paragraphs.

The characters are poorly constructed, uninteresting and unbelievable. The dialog is unnatural. The plot is implausible. Plus, there's a romance that is so forced, it's painful.

It's no wonder this book was released by a different publisher than Dream Park and California Voodoo Game. It's an embarrassment.

Rating: 5
Summary: Find it. Read it. Now.
Comment: The Dream Park series is one of the best around, and it pays to hunt them out. The future is Mars, and the park owners / managers / etc. know this. The book centers around this and getting man on Mars. Also sets up aspects of the book Fallen Angels.

Rating: 4
Summary: Lacks "Dream Park's" magic, but well worth the ride
Comment: Although missing some of the wonder that made the first novel in this on-going series a unique and highly satisfying work, "The Barsoom Project" remains, nonetheless, a very good read. Like its predecessor, the story has several dimensions, managing to succeed as an excellent fantasia on the rarely-studied, yet fascinating Eskimo mythos and magic, a provocative portrait of the likely future of the entertainment industry, and an abosrbing and convoluted murder mystery. Even if Barnes's and Niven's second "Dream Park" effort lacks the magic of their first, it is nonetheless a well-crafted book allowing the eager reader to check in on a few old friends, and live, if only for a moment, in a wonderland of entertainment that makes Disneyland look like an oversized swingset. Also in the same series by the same authors are:"Dream Park"and"The California Voodoo Game"--Dalin T. Error ([email protected])Alvin, Texas

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