Dream Bite

by Ken Catran

In a technology-dominated future, people are dying one by one while playing virtual reality games. The Harley-riding Rhoda decides to investigate and draws Preben into a dangerous world of technology, intrigue and mind games.

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

142 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Ken Catran is a children's novelist and television screenwriter from New Zealand. He is the author of many teen novels, including Taken at the Flood, Voyage with Jason, Doomfire on Venus, Space Wolf, Talking to Blue and its sequel Blue Murder. He is perhaps best known for his Deepwater trilogy series

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book out at the library, not expecting much, and started skimming thru it, and IT MADE NO SENSE. Thinking about it, I realized that that was because the main sense of the story was not carried by the dialogue. In nearly every YA book ever written you can just skim through and be fine, and I was not expecting anything but a light, easy read. But in Dream Bite the important things happen in the gaps between what people say and do. It was a lovely way to physically express the paranoia and big-brotherness of the society. I fell in love, and have reread Dream Bite regularly since.

I take away a star for the cruel and unreasonable reason that I then went out and borrowed a whole bunch more Ken Catran books, and NONE OF THEM WERE SO COOL :(