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Not Free SF Reader
This is also called Beowulf's Children, and deals with what happens to a future generation on the planet Heorot.They have some knowledge of what goes on around the planet now, of course, but they still have to deal with it, and keep trying to forge ahead and create a civilisation.Not as interesting as the first book.

Released under different title in US
This book was released under a different title in the United States.If you are looking for the title in print, look under "Beowulf's Children."

Good sequel to The Legacy of Heorot
For those of you who like me enjoyed The Legacy Of Heorot, Dragons is a worthwhile sequel.
Set twenty years after the events of Legacy, we see the inhabitants of the planet Avalon, living their lives on the island they secured for themselves, following the events of the previous book.
However, the children of the survivors of the fight against the grendels wish to branch out onto the mainland. Despite the reluctance of their elders, they set about how to do this. Led by the headstrong and ruthless Aaron Tragon, they then go ahead and set up an outpost which they call Shangri La. However, this outpost turns out to be anything but the perfection that the name implies, and they discover to their cost that human nature remains as traitorous as ever. Additionally, they also find out that there is a life form on the mainland that is even more lethal than the grendels themselves.....

The book explores the interaction of its human characters well, and is particularly strong with the scenes involving Old Grendel, an intelligent grendel no less. It also explores the impact of mankind on a new planet and its indigenous life forms. Indeed, Niven makes a strong case as to whether that most ugly creature - human nature, is the most dangerous thing of all on this new planet...
The story line is good and has its shares of shocks and surprises, and leads up to a powerful ending.
Overall this book is a very good read and I can recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first. ... Read more

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A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which drawf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart. ... Read more

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Not Free SF Reader
This is the sequel to the former Legacy of Heorot novel, also called the Dragons of Heorot, I think, and unfortunately it is not as interesting.

The older generation begin to have health problems from all that they have endured, so a serious generation gap develops between those born locally, and those not.

So, the book mostly is about the difference in cultural attitudes between the two, and the new kids wanting to go their own way.

Yamabushi's mini reviews XVII
this sequel to leagacy of heorot stumbles badly, and never captures the tension, excitement, imagery of the first book.

still entertaining
if you loved the legacy of heorot, you should only be mildly dissapointed by this sequel, which is pretty good, just not jaw droppingly good like the first one.i'll give it 4 stars because i have a soft spot for this kind of thing.grendel guns, minerva landers, indeed.

Sad
These authors have been mainstays in my SF library but this sequel is disappointing. It will only have meaning as a hand off to the final novel. However, it does not seem to be in the forseeable future.
I would not purchase this book untill the final book is written.

Disappointing sequel to Legacy of Heorot
I loved Legacy of Heorot.I was sadly disappointed in the sequel.The major plot line is promising enough.The children of the original characters believe it is time to move off the colonized island and make their own colony on the mainland.
I still like all the original characters.The children, who by the way are one and all superintelligent, are less likeable.And nobody has noticed the the most superintelligent of them all is socialpathic.He is also extremely handsome, a karate expert, a computer expert, an expert marksman and the absolute best at anything that anyone can do.
The best part of the original book was the grendel monster.In this book they are just routine, barely a threat to anyone who pays attention.The new threat is unseen, after an entrance early in the book it remains just a mystery to be solved.
The big attack doesn't happen till page 466 and by page 489 everyone lives happily ever after.
I feel bad giving Larry and Jerry a bad review, but this sequel, like the Gripping Hand, is not worthy of the original. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 1993. The length of the article is 1158 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: An updated bibliography on Djuna Barnes includes new editions of her work, new translations of her work and critical commentary.

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Title: Djuna Barnes: an updated bibliography. (Djuna Barnes) (Bibliography)
Author: Jamie Stevens
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v13Issue: n3Page: p201(4)

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Not Free SF Reader
"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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In the wake of the Great Depression, one of President Franklin Roosevelts most successful New Deal programs was the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal governmentowned corporation created in 1933 to revitalize the TennesseeRiver Valley. This book includes essays by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and the fine arts. Featuring new photography by Richard Barnes, The Tennessee Valley Authority interweaves technical, political, aesthetic, and cultural concerns to complete a missing chapter in the study of modern American architecture and design.

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Welcome to Dream Park-an amusement park where nothing is what it seems-except murder. ... Read more

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Return to Dream Park for those who want a little less
This return to Dream Park (the role-playing theme park of the future) is workman-like enough and avoids the pitfalls of the earlier novel, but ultimately there isn't much real meat here.This time through, the game is a "Fat-Ripper Special", which means that the players are paying their hard-earned dollars to lose weight, get plenty of exercise, and change the way they think about food.This certainly makes sense from a Dream Park perspective - people always seem to have money for weight loss - and this at least makes it distinct from the original Dream Park novel, but it doesn't make for an especially interesting story.Once again, the best part of the book is the Game itself, which this time is based on Inuit mythology.And once again, the back-story (a ruthless industrialist attempts to sabotage the visionary Barsoom Project) is where most of the science fiction is, even though it gets very few pages, and isn't really all that interesting.So like the original Dream Park novel, this book is recommended for gamers more than for sci-fi readers.Those uncertain if they really want to return to Dream Park would be better off skipping to the third installment, The California Voodoo Game, which is a substantially better book than this one.

Not Free SF Reader
An odd choice for a name, as the Barsoom Project is nothing to do with the actual game that will be played, but a project that the Dream Park company inside the book wants to get involved with, actual exploration of Mars.

The game itself involves lots of cold, eskimo types and other such things, no John Carters or Dejah Thorises or any analogues of any of that to be seen.

Not as good as the original, but an entertaining read
If you're already a fan, it's a decent buy.But don't expect it to be *as good* as Dream Park!

fat ripper special
I found this book very exciting. Although I resd it before the other books in the series. I find that this book centered on the game which was a fat ripper special. That means that the game was to lose weight. To make it stick way past when the game was over they used Induit ways of regarding food. This stuck with me so much that I still remember this book and it's been a good five years since I read the book.

If you're looking for good Sci Fi, keep looking
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. ... Read more

Product Description
Cover by Val Lakey/ Artifact for "The Descent of Anansi" (novel excerpt) by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes. Inlcudes "My Brother's Keeper" (novelette) by Joseph H. Delaney; "Collaboration" (novelette) by Mark C. Jarvis; "The Inner Five". ... Read more