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Dreamland Chronicles
You've been to Disneyland... You've seen Westworld... You've read Dreampark... Now, in the 21st century, experience your wildest fantasies come true in Dreamland! Beyond rides, beyond robots and simulations, beyond illusions, lasers, and holograms, Dreamland takes you out of your body and into computer-generated "worlds" where anything you can imagine is possible! Ride the open prairie with Jessie James or Billy the Kid, in Frontierworld. Sprout gills and experience an undersea adventure in Oceanworld. Hunt Dinosaurs and meet the missing link in Primalworld. Play beach blanket bingo with Frankie and Annette in Surferworld. Fight a dragon and rescue a fair damsel from the Black Night in Fantasyworld, the oldest and most popular of the Dreamland Programs. You'll have the time of your life! If you survive... The Dreamland Chronicles an onmibus collection of William Mark Simmon's three Dreamland titles...In the Net of Dreams, When Dreams Collide, and in print for the first time, The Woman of His Dreams.
956 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2002
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About the author
Wm. Mark Simmons
13 books47 followersWilliam (Wm.) Mark Simmons was born in 1953 and spent his formative years in Independence, Missouri, the hometown of President Harry S. Truman and fantasy author Jim Butcher.
He has had a varied career as an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, musician, and entertainer.
His first novel, In the Net of Dreams, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award and made Locus Magazine’s “Best List” in 1991. To date he has published seven novels and one novella in the United States with translations in Russia and the Czech Republic. His unique blend of humor and plots that unfold "like an origami sculpture designed by M.C. Escher" have won him the title of “master of twisted humorous fantasy and horror.”
Mark currently resides in the town of Hutchinson, Kansas, not far from the world famous Cosmosphere Space Museum. For the last 13 years of his 40-plus years as a broadcaster and a journalist, he was the Music Director for Radio Kansas and heard as the network’s morning Classical host throughout nearly half of the Sunflower State up until his retirement in 2018. His eighth novel, "A Witch in Time," was released in April of 2019. He currently serves as Game Warden for the nature preserve that is his back yard, wrangles cats, and is working on two new novels in his now copious free time.
(source: http://www.sff.net/people/wm.mark.sim...)
He has had a varied career as an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, musician, and entertainer.
His first novel, In the Net of Dreams, was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award and made Locus Magazine’s “Best List” in 1991. To date he has published seven novels and one novella in the United States with translations in Russia and the Czech Republic. His unique blend of humor and plots that unfold "like an origami sculpture designed by M.C. Escher" have won him the title of “master of twisted humorous fantasy and horror.”
Mark currently resides in the town of Hutchinson, Kansas, not far from the world famous Cosmosphere Space Museum. For the last 13 years of his 40-plus years as a broadcaster and a journalist, he was the Music Director for Radio Kansas and heard as the network’s morning Classical host throughout nearly half of the Sunflower State up until his retirement in 2018. His eighth novel, "A Witch in Time," was released in April of 2019. He currently serves as Game Warden for the nature preserve that is his back yard, wrangles cats, and is working on two new novels in his now copious free time.
(source: http://www.sff.net/people/wm.mark.sim...)
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June 6, 2018
Wow! As a programmer and a sarcastic person (who? me?) I loved these books! The virtual reality and the options the creators can access are quite remarkable. So, what happens when the virtual reality computer (brain?) becomes elf aware? Be ready for an adventurous ride!
November 8, 2018
Very fun read.
If Xanth and Ready Player One had a love child, The Dreamland Chronicles would be it. If you enjoy puns and nerd culture, you need this in your collection. I ran through the whole set one after another.
If Xanth and Ready Player One had a love child, The Dreamland Chronicles would be it. If you enjoy puns and nerd culture, you need this in your collection. I ran through the whole set one after another.
March 19, 2009
A 3-in-1 trilogy about a virtual reality world which becomes a little too real. Fun but uneven, featuring lots of in-jokes and bad puns (including many aimed at an RPG-playing audience) and a main setting which sounds a lot like a virtual reality D&D campaign. The basic psychology elements and the multiple-worlds of the trilogy don't entirely work for me, though, and the humor is more fun than some of the main plot.
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