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

by Edward Packard

Book Overview

The reader, en route to the third planet from Altair to seek the source and meaning of extraterrestrial messages, is given choices to make determining the course of the spaceship and the survival of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553139789
• ISBN13: 9780553139785
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mysterious aliens, science and the great Dr. Vivaldi

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.

Exciting discoveries

I'm glad that Edward Packard allowed himself to do an outer space adventure so early in this series (#7) when his colleague, R.A. Montgomery, ahd already written "Space and Beyond" as #4. Montgomery's work was pretty incoherent, but this one offers a consistent tone and unified set of plots that make it among the better of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" games. There is a pervasive weird atmosphere in this one that I rather like.