Choose Your Own Adventure Pair — Hyperspace (#21) & Vampire Express (#31) View Watchlist >
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Choose Your Own Adventure Pair — Hyperspace (#21) & Vampire Express (#31), Bantam 1980s
Edward Packard invented the Choose Your Own Adventure format before the series had a name — his first branching story, written in 1969 for his daughter, eventually became The Cave of Time, launching the most successful interactive fiction franchise in publishing history. Hyperspace (#21, 1983) is among his most conceptually ambitious entries: the reader is pulled into a secret laboratory by the eccentric Professor Zinka and his "hypolaser," a dimension-hopping device that threatens to strand you beyond the known universe. Fifteen branching paths lead to outcomes ranging from alien rulership to transformation — the kind of genuine narrative consequence that made Packard's titles the series' intellectual backbone. Illustration by Anthony Kramer; cover art deploys the period's signature psychedelic swirl-and-starfield aesthetic to full effect.
Vampire Express (#31, 1984) by Tony Koltz drops the reader into rural Romania on a vampire hunt gone wrong — wolves in the fog, a missing companion, a castle looming ahead, and 21 possible endings branching from every decision. Illustrated by Doug Jamieson, whose cover rendering of the central vampire — wide-eyed, fanged, flanked by bat and wolf — is one of the more genuinely unsettling images in the series' paperback run. Both books carry their original Bantam cover price of $1.95 US and retain intact bindings. Sold as a pair.
CONDITION
Good overall. Both copies show cover toning, edge creasing, and age-related yellowing to the page blocks consistent with 40 years of shelf and reading life. Bindings on both copies remain intact and pages are secure. No missing pages, writing, or major damage noted.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Lot: 2 books
- #21 — Hyperspace by Edward Packard; illustrated by Anthony Kramer; 15 possible endings; Bantam Books; ISBN 0-553-23324-6
- #31 — Vampire Express by Tony Koltz; illustrated by Doug Jamieson; 21 possible endings; Bantam Books; ISBN 0-553-24099-4
- Format: Mass-market paperback
- Original cover price: $1.95 US each
