The Cave of Time
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| The Cave of Time | |
 Cover of the Bantam edition |
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| Author | Edward Packard |
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| Illustrator | Paul Granger |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Choose Your Own Adventure |
| Genre(s) | Gamebook |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
| Publication date | 1979 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 115 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-553-20892-6 |
| Followed by | Journey Under the Sea |
The Cave of Time is a 1979 gamebook by Edward Packard with illustrations by "Paul Granger" (a pseudonym for Don Hedin) that is the first installment published in the Choose Your Own Adventure book series. The popularity of the book would serve as the basis for the long-running series, which would continue publishing new adventures until 1998.
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[edit] Plot summary
As in the other books in the series, the reader is portrayed as the protagonist of the story, referred to in the present tense and by the second-person pronoun "you." The reader is visiting his Uncle Howard at Red Creek Ranch when he stumbles upon a cave he had never noticed before. The cave turns out to be a portal to various time periods, and through different choices the reader can go on the Titanic, journey back to the Middle Ages, or witness the end of the world. There are forty possible endings, not all of them pleasing.
It is explained in a sequel that the cave exists outside time and space, and because of that one can exit it in anytime and anywhere.
The Forbidden Castle and Return to the Cave of Time are sequels to this book. Its narrative device of the cave as time portal is also used in The First Olympics.
[edit] Book details
- Pages - 115
- Possible Endings - 40
- ISBN 0-553-20892-6
[edit] See also
- Main Article: Choose Your Own Adventure
