Consider the Consequences!

Consider the Consequences! is a romantic novel in the form of an interactive novel or gamebook by the American writing partnership of and Mary Alden Hopkins. It is the earliest known gamebook, and has 43 different endings.

Publication

The 146-page hardback was published by The Century Company in the United States, priced $1.50.
The book's central characters are Helen Rogers and her two male suitors, Jed Harringdale and Saunders Mead. The reader's first decision is which of the three characters' viewpoints to adopt.
The book was favorably reviewed, among others, in The Tampa Times, the Santa Ana Register, the Detroit Free Press, The San Francisco Examiner, and The Salt Lake Tribune.

Legacy

On July 6, 2018 the book was read on air on KZSC radio in Santa Cruz, USA, by James Ryan, who has researched the book and its authors, and his wife Nina, with choices made by the station's listeners.
A copy was made available on the Internet Archive in August 2023. A transcription was published on Wikisource in January 2026, days after the book's US copyright expired.
In October 2023, the game was ported to TWINE and made available for online play at itch.io.