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The Third Planet from Altair (Choose Your Own Adventure #7)

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This is not among Edward's Packard's finest works, but it's still a good read. There is more of a fast and frenzied pace on this one compared to the more psychological 'Space and Beyond'. You find yourself being the tie breaker to critical decisions which could mean survival and sudden death aboard the spaceship. Some of the endings are really creative such as when your spaceship runs into it's own weapons after firing them at hyperspeed. Some of the other endings are abrupt and will leave you scratching your head. I actually reached the planet Altair but lost contact with the mothership. So I was sucked on board an alien craft. The friendly aliens came up to greet me and it was the end. Shrug. At least this book, unlike 'Space and Beyond', allowed the reader to, at least, reach the third planet of Altair. It was damn near impossible to reach at least one of the planets on 'space and beyond'

I adore Dr. Vivaldi, one of the strongest female figures in fiction I saw growing up. The crew of the intrepid expedition encounters all kinds of aliens in a multitude of endings. Edward Packard loves adventure, and although this is no "Hyperspace" in terms of aliens, it's just terrific.

Like most Choose Your Own Adventure books the choices you made don't always result in a way that makes sense. But this book makes more sense than most as you can, if you pick correctly, end up on the planet Altair.

Earth has detected messages from outer space. The source happens to be from the third planet in orbit around Altair, a yellow-white star 16 light years away. The messages repeat themselves and are from an intelligent race but nobody can understand them.

You, and a three others, are selected to take the spaceship, the Aloha, to seek out who, or what, is sending the messages.