Cyberspace Warrior

Choose Your Own Adventure #154

by Edward Packard, June Brigman (Illustrator)

An exciting interactive adventure involves a famous inventor, a futuristic video game, and an electronic world of horizontal mountains, snail people, and a metallic monster--but the game is just as dangerous as it is fun. Original.

Genres: Gamebooks, Choose Your Own Adventure

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text.

The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well.

In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.

Reviews

[Lautaro Lobo]

Cool Sci-Fi twists. Loved it as a kid!

[Chibixio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading this book again after all these years was a totally different experience. I remember I loved this one when I was younger. Nevertheless, my perception of this story certainly changed since those times. I guess it's my age. I couldn't enjoy it that much as I did in the past, but it was a good read. It's just that now, as a so-called adult, I went for the "it's just a game, after all" kind of choices. I didn't feel the emotion I used to feel, probably because I didn't feel the connection between the game and the character's "real world" as strong as I used to. So everything was "just a game", but I know it wasn't simply like that when I first read it. As a child, I was totally into the game.

So I think this is a good book and might remain as one of my favorites from this series, yet it suffered from two weaknesses:
1) Too many similar endings.
2) In most cases, one of two choices given would lead to an ending. Hence it felt like there was one correct path of choices and all the other were wrong.

In conclusion, this is one of those books you should read at a young age in order to fully enjoy it. And even if the pictures show a white boy, the writing is totally relatable for children of any gender or race.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

the adventures that I went through when I was bored I just read these books over and over again you would never get to the end of the story.