Mutiny in Space

Choose Your Own Adventure #90

by R.A. Montgomery, Edward Packard

The reader is an apprentice crew member aboard the Baruna, a space transport ship. But after three months, the first mate leads a mutiny and forces the captain onto a shuttlecraft. The reader must decide which group to join.

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure, Gamebooks, Science Fiction, Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1989

About the author

Raymond A. Montgomery (born 1936 in Connecticut) was an author and progenitor of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series, which ran from 1979 to 2003. Montgomery graduated from Williams College and went to graduate school at Yale University and New York University (NYU). He devoted his life to teaching and education.

In 2004, he co-founded the Chooseco publishing company alongside his wife, fellow author/publisher Shannon Gilligan, with the goal of reviving the CYOA series with new novels and reissued editions of the classics.

He continued to write and publish until his death in 2014.

Reviews

[Carissa]

Read this after playing the board game version and it is just as unhinged and confusing and entertaining. I got much better endings reading the book versus playing the game, but the story still surprised me in all the odd ways it could go. Entertaining but the paths to the more interesting endings weren't easy to reach or clear.

[JKR]

The main choice in this book is - do you join the mutineers? Or the captain and his crew being ejected into space? However, afterwards there are many interesting choices that lead to very different story lines, adding to re-readability.

[Sheila Read]

the adventures that I went through when I was bored I just read these books over and over again you would never get to the end of the story.