There's a full-page picture of an Easter Island-esque head that looks like it was included simply to fill up pages. The same drawing is used on two different pages and the alien designs all feel overly familiar and uninspired. Usually Paul Granger, the artist, provides very dynamic drawings but here they feel rushed/phoned in. There's also a diagram of UFO 54-40 at the beginning of the book for reference. Some of the things you might encounter are homesick fog humanoids, psychic glowing orbs, an art heist with robots, billion year sleeping chambers, 600 year old samurai, whatever Mopo is, and tentacled eggheads.
And frankly they're mostly interchangeable. Each path seemed similar to the next with the only difference being which alien or human is helping you escape the UFO. And despite it involving spaceships and aliens it's a bit repetitive. Inside UFO 54-40 (CYOA #12) is by Edward Packard. I'm not sure what the lesson here is supposed to be exactly but it's definitely unique to the Choose Your Own Adventure series. 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.Īs other reviewers have noted the only way to reach the paradise planet Ultima is accidentally, by observation of an unreached page(s), or to purposefully flip through the book looking for it because "no one can get there by making choices or following instructions". Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. 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. 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.
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. Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School.
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