Leila Johnston's Enemy of Chaos is a geekily hilarious modern choose-your-own-adventure novel in which you play a middle aged bitter geek who is drafted into a branching narrative in which your goal is to save reality, while negotiating many of the familiar indignities of modern geekish life, from over-exuberant role-players to nuclear apocalypse.
This is a sneakily funny book, a book that is so funny on a sentence-by-sentence level and so silly on its face that it's easy to lose track of the fact that there's an enormous amount of nostalgic heart here, a really affectionate remembrance of the whole RPG boom.
If you like smart obscure statistics jokes, wickedly funny observational humor about geeks and their place in society, and if you are filled with nostalgic warmth at the thought of a choose-your-own-adventure story written for the adult you became, this is for you.
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Wow - thanks so much for the mention, glad you liked it!
Just wanted to say there's also a website enemyofchaos.com, and an iPhone app version of the book linked from enemyofchaos.com/app.
Cheers, Leila
The stapler. That´s what make that cover epic lulz. I´m sold.
Werewolf in the foreground: "Let me just get that from ya. Great."
Fire lizard in the background: "Ok. I'll set the building on fire."
Ah,the memories of those Fighting Fantasy books.Great covers too.
That was a GREAT post. Sends me back to my days of geekdom in the early 80's playing AD&D and reading the pick a path adventure books.
Can we choose to spread the chaos instead? Order is boring.