TRAITORS IN SPACE

Intrepid readers must make tough decisions to save a spaceship’s crew from a hostile alien takeover.

The premise of this interactive tale? You’re a young intergalactic geologist who’s just completed a successful first mission to a distant planet’s rocky moon. It’s time to go back into cryosleep for the long voyage home. But when you awaken, something’s not right. You’re still nowhere near Earth, and the emergency alarm is blaring. The computer informs you that extraterrestrial life has been detected on board. Who among your ship’s close-knit crew can you really trust? In fast-paced, second-person prose, readers are asked to make critical choices such as casting their vote for who among the cast is most likely to have been infected by an alien life form and then following a winding path to discover the outcome of that decision. Scene-setting and character development take a back seat to rollicking side quests, but fans of Choose Your Own Adventure–style stories will find much to love regardless. Fresh, angular cartoon illustrations detail the mysterious alien invasion and stoke suspicion, though they don’t always quite align with the text. Images of the characters imply an ethnically diverse crew. With tricky visual puzzles integrated throughout and more than 45 possible endings (some deadly), this tale will invite readers to return again and again.

A cosmic journey that will have young adventurers rocketing back for further missions.