The Nightmare Dream

The Possibility Wars #3

by Jonatha Ariadne Caspian, Bill Slavicsek, Greg Gorden

Excellent Book

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Role Playing Games, Cyberpunk

314 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, a quarter century later and I still enjoy this setting. I wanted to go back and revisit the original with word the we may have a new version of the game out sometime in the next year. It still speaks to me and while it certainly follows the 90s formula of fantasy fiction to some extent I find I care about the characters.
Score one for nostalgia!

[Ryan Crown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed this book -- and would have given it 4 stars -- right up until the ending, at which point the story kind of fell apart (at least for me). Admittedly the story had kind of been leading up to the ending that it had, but that was also one of the issues I had with the story as a whole, which is the whole idea of the heroes being "chosen".

I have never been a fan of the "chosen" hero, the hero who is destined to save the world. And the ending of this story really feels like the characters didn't defeat the villains for any other reason than they were destined to do so. All in all an interesting story concept that could have been developed much better than it was.

[Georg Gänzle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Band 3 der Trilogie, mit leichten Startschwierigkeiten: Hauptplot 1, der Kampf gegen den Gaunt Man, ist in Band 2 beendet. Und Hauptplot 2, Still World, ist dem Rollenspiel (das Abenteuer in der Grundbox) vorbehalten. Da fehlt zu Beginn etwas die Richtung.
Mit dem Kampf gegen Uthorion und der Rückkehr von Pella Ardinay wird kurzerhand ein neuer Plot eingeführt. Warum das dann als Trilogie verkauft wird erschließt sich mir nicht.

Sobald der Plot läuft ist man aber wieder voll drin in diesem faszinierenden Setting. Mir gefällt's.

[Bracicot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent, certainly better than #1, though I think not as string as #2. I think I was hoping for more of the cyberpapacy, and better of the Nile empire.