The Dream Games The only humans left of Earth are aristocratic mortals, doomed to live out their perpetual youth as sex-cultists-lost in the euphoria of the dream game. Meanwhile, the all powerful computer Cybermind commands the galaxy with its army of youthful Hybrids, captured and equipped with artificial memories and passions. But random acts of terror have broken out-massive robberies and brutal mind deaths, while helpless victims swoom in ecstasies of imagined passion...Enemies of the Cybermind, master of illusion, two rebel Hybrids have become the ultimate terrorists. Fighting against the decadence of Earth, in search of their own pasts. Nate and Risa are now the most feared of all warriors. Living, loving, killing as one, they are the dream hunters....
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Hardcore New World Revisited,
By Skirmisher Online Gaming Magazine (Fairfax, Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dream Games (Paperback)
Back in the early '80s, probably 1982, my friend Paul Knorr handed me a novel and said something like, "Read this. You'll like it." I perused the cover, emblazoned with some fairly typical sci-fi soldier, and, humoring him, asked what it was about. "It's about soldiers," he said. "They fight, then they have sex, then they do drugs, then they fight some more." Encouraging. Nonetheless, I accepted the book and read it. In short, War Games, by Karl Hansen and Kenneth Paul Rogers, is one of the most lurid, powerful works of science fiction I have ever read, a mutant cross between Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, with a solid dose of S&M and narcotics abuse thrown in for good measure. The 1981 novel was followed four years later by Dream Games, which was written by Hansen alone. War Games is far superior to Dream Games as a military science fiction novel. However, the latter book explores the workings of Hansen's universe in greater depth and provides answers to questions posed in the earlier work. Dream Games ends with a separatist invasion armada ringing Earth and preparing to launch a crushing attack -- bleak yes, but also inviting a sequel. A sequel that to date has not been forthcoming. From a gaming point of view, especially that of role-playing, Hansen's books are ideal in that throughout them they describe a broad variety of weapons, armor, equipment, augmentations, and genetically manufactured races, and clearly delineate the socio-political and military environments his protagonists inhabit. Of course, the books are damned from a role-playing point of view, in that many parents would undoubtedly become upset if they knew just what sort of books their kid's new game was based on. (Remember all the flak D&D has gotten, especially in the '80s?) Nonetheless, those of us who have both read Hansen and played TSR's Star Frontiers cannot fail to notice uncanny similarities between the arsenals of the books and the game. Since reading War Games and Dream Games, I have continued to search for other works by Karl Hansen, but from what I can tell he only wrote those two. I have always wondered what happened to him, and sometimes entertain the notion that the righteous citizens of whatever town he lived in decided that burning him in effigy just wouldn't be good enough ... To my knowledge, the only other thing Kenneth Paul Rogers has written is some true crime book (which I have not read) about a convicted rapist-murderer. Maybe that would shed some light on the whole Hansen-Rogers disappearing act. And maybe I don't want to know. --By Michael J. Varhola for Skirmisher Online Gaming Magazine
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