Galactic Challenge

by Allen Varney, Dennis Kauth (Cover Artist), Terry Dykstra (Illustrator)

Galactic adventurer Rogan Hayl has joined the Resistance to fight the evil Morione Domain. Now an alien life-form, the Subverter, has stolen Rogan's spaceship and made his friend a slave of the Domain. Rogan travels to the waterworld of Pellaj and the honeycombed caverns of the astroid Dvaad, facing aliens, hostile robots and the psychic magic called the Music of the Spheres.

Genres: Gamebooks

187 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

Writer and game designer based for many years in Austin, Texas, USA; currently in Ithaca, upstate New York. Designer of the 2004 edition of the classic science fiction roleplaying game PARANOIA. I operate the Bundle of Holding ( bundleofholding.com ), which presents time-limited offers of tabletop roleplaying game ebooks.

Reviews

[Clayton VanLeeuwen · Rating 1 out of 5]

A loosely sci-fi fever dream with only two different endings, one of which is an abrupt game over for making a poor decision. Thanks to the construction of “choices,” some of the scenes just don’t make logical sense. No matter what choices are made, every path visits the same key scenes, just in a different order. The illustrations are typical and bland. There’s just nothing exciting about this book.