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Time Machine was a series of children's books published by Bantam Books from 1984 to 1989, similar to their more successful Choose Your Own Adventure line of "interactive" novels. Each book was in the second person, with the reader choosing how the story should progress. They were designed by Byron Preiss Visual Publications. Bantam Books is a major U.S. publishing house owned by Random House and is part of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group. ...
The Cave of Time, the first Choose Your Own Adventure book. ...
There are several conceptual views of interactivity, the most general being the contingency view. ...
Grammatical person, in linguistics, is used for the grammatical categories a language uses to describe the relationship between the speaker and the persons or things she is talking about. ...
The main difference between the Choose Your Own Adventure series and the Time Machine series was that Time Machine books featured only one ending, forcing the reader to try many different choices until they discovered it. Also, the series taught children basic history about many diverse subjects, from dinosaurs to World War II. Only the sixth book in the series, The Rings of Saturn, departed from actual history; it is set in the future, and features educational content about the solar system. Some books gave the reader their choice from a small list of equipment at the beginning, and this choice would affect events later in the book (I.e. "If you brought the pen knife, turn to page 20, if not turn to page 34."). Orders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
The line spawned a brief spin-off series for younger readers, the Time Traveler novels. Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ...
Time Machine books
1984 - 1. Secret of the Knights by Jim Gasperini, ISBN 0-553-23601-6
- 2. Search for Dinosaurs by David Bischoff, ISBN 0-553-23602-4
- 3. Sword of the Samurai by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry, ISBN 0-553-24052-8
- 4. Sail with Pirates by Jim Gasperini, ISBN 0-553-23808-6
- 5. Civil War Secret Agent by Steve Perry, ISBN 0-553-24183-4
David F. Bischoff (1951–) is an American science fiction and television writer. ...
Michael Reaves (born 1950) is an American writer, known for his contributions as producer and story editor to a number of 1990s animated television series, including Disneys Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series. ...
Steve Perry (born August 31, 1947) is a television writer and science fiction author. ...
1985 - 6. The Rings of Saturn by Arthur Byron Cover, ISBN 0-553-24424-8
- 7. Ice Age Explorer by Dougal Dixon, ISBN 0-553-24722-0
- 8. The Mystery of Atlantis by Jim Gasperini, ISBN 0-553-25073-6
- 9. Wild West Rider by Stephen Overholser, ISBN 0-553-25180-5
- 10. American Revolutionary by Arthur Byron Cover, ISBN 0-553-25300-X
Arthur Byron Cover (born 1950) is a science fiction author. ...
Dougal Dixon (born 1947) is a Scottish geologist. ...
1986 - 11. Mission to World War II by Susan Nanus and Marc Kornblatt, ISBN 0-553-25431-6
- 12. Search for the Nile by Robert W. Walker, ISBN 0-553-25538-X
- 13. Secret of the Royal Treasure by Carol Gaskin, ISBN 0-553-25729-3
- 14. Blade of the Guillotine by Arthur Byron Cover, ISBN 0-553-26038-3
- 15. Flame of the Inquisition by Marc Kornblatt, ISBN 0-553-26160-6
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1987 - 16. Quest for the Cities of Gold by Richard Glatzer, ISBN 0-553-26295-5
- 17. Scotland Yard Detective by Seymour V. Reit, ISBN 0-553-26421-4
- 18. Sword of Caesar by Robin Stevenson and Bruce Stevenson, ISBN 0-553-26531-8
- 19. Death Mask of Pancho Villa by Carol Gaskin and George Guthridge, ISBN 0-553-26674-8
- 20. Bound for Australia by Nancy Bailey, ISBN 0-553-26793-0
- 21. Caravan to China by Carol Gaskin, ISBN 0-553-26906-2
1988 - 22. Last of the Dinosaurs by Peter Lerangis, ISBN 0-553-27007-9
- 23. Quest for King Arthur by Ruth Ashby, ISBN 0-553-27126-1
- 24. World War I Flying Ace by Richard Mueller, ISBN 0-553-27231-4
1989 - 25. Special Edition: World War II Code Breaker by Peter Lerangis, ISBN 0-553-28157-7
See also Zork I is one of the first interactive fiction games, as well as being one of the first commercially sold. ...
Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, originally published by Puffin and now by Wizard Books. ...
External links - Time Machine book list and reviews (gamebooks.org)
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