Time Machine 8, The Mystery of Atlantis

Have you ever wanted to see the lost city of Atlantis? Now's your chance! Your mission is to travel to ancient Greece and gather whatever information you can that will help you find Atlantis. The search begins by meeting the great philosopher Plato, and then sailing off for a great ocean voyage where mystery and adventure await!

The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

JIM GASPERINI reviewed interactive computer fiction for Electronic Fun, and published the history of a medieval French artisan’s guild in Museum. He has been a videotape editor, a busker, a traveling book salesman, and a literary agent, and made his operatic debut in the 1983 Metropolitan Opera production of Don Carlo as Arquebusier (spear carrier). He resides in New York. He is the author of Time Machine 1, Secrets
of the Knights, and Time Machine 4, Sail with Pirates.

KENNETH SMITH is a respected illustrator, author and professor of philosophy, which he has taught for many years at Louisiana State University. His most famous work is Phantasmagoria, a magnificently illustrated series of fables. He recently completed illustrations for Caedmon’s The Bat Family. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Angela, and their children.