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HYPERSPACE # 21 (Choose Your Own Adventure)

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This is without a doubt my favorite book of the CYOA series. As an 11-year-old, the storyline was so bizarre and difficult to wrap my head around that it gave my brain a major workout. I would read this book over and over, and develop lots of new fantasies based on the scenarios from the book. On the other hand, this book is so esoteric that it might put some people off on the series, so I can't recommend it for everyone. You should get this book if you enjoy CYOA in general and have an open mind for exposing your mind to new and strange concepts. If you're getting this for a child, I'd wait until they are at least 8 or 9 years old, so that they at least have a foundation of learning they can use to understand the book.

I'm going to read the book once more now, and try again to figure out what the experience of being in the sixth dimension might be like...

Edward Packard has just a little bit too much fun with Hyperspace, a minor classic. It's amazing that a "kiddie" book, albeit one soaked in self-referential post-modernism, remains an all-time favorite of mine.

"Hyperspace" is my favorite of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books I have read, and it definitely deserves to be brought back into print. Its highly self-referential storyline results in such delights as characters who know they're characters in a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, and what surely must be the most surprising cameo in the series--an appearance by a certain person whose last name is that of an old model of car... This book is a true classic of the heyday of plot-your-own stories.

Packard has a ball with this, the most wild and adventurous of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. This is pretty flipped-out stuff, and it's amusing to see the genre get played around with so much. Perhaps the last of the great ones in this series before it bogged down, with a few scattered exceptions later on.

i read a load of these back when i was around 10-12 i estimate and owned quite a few as well. i wish i still had this one, i got to thinking about it today for some reason and it is the only one that i still recall. i do not remember too much of specific plot but i do remember being really mind-bent as a kid going over this one. i just wanted to check if i could grab it for the kindle (its not, but i requested it) because i'd love to have another go over it.

"Hyperspace" is my favorite of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books I have read, and it definitely deserves to be brought back into print. Its highly self-referential storyline results in such delights as characters who know they're characters in a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, and what surely must be the most surprising cameo in the series--an appearance by a certain person whose last name is that of an old model of car... This book is a true classic of the heyday of plot-your-own stories.

I actually wrote an unfinished novella based on one of the "paths" in this book. I realize now that I was writing fan fiction, so it's a good thing I never finished <g>

My story was based on the "path" that comes from the boy narrator reading the professor's book and piloting a spacecraft. I picked the option to fire on the alien spacecraft (then I usually cheated and went back to the original choice). That led to the boy becoming ruler of an alien race with amusing commentary on politics:

"What do you mean, I'm your king?"
"What it would mean in any universe. You must never go out without twelve guards to protect you you must pretend to be happy."

I actually continued the story and wrote about the boy becoming ruler of the world, what he would face, etc. My other favorite was the aliens with baggy air sacs in the space where the sky was the sea.

And of course, Doctor Vivaldi showed up along with another familiar figure...