Bill McCay

My first Tom Swift read, and it was quite enjoyable. A change of pace from the many mysteries I like to read. Tom creates a black hole while working on an experiment in his lab, and gets sucked into the void. Meanwhile, an evil Tom Swift from an alternate universe was also working on creating a black hole to escape the law and ends up getting sucked into the good Tom's world. Now it's up to good Tom to get back to his world cause on evil Tom's world he is a wanted felon.

A somewhat more nuanced story about slavery than SPARTACUS, although still pretty broad strokes (it is Trek after all). I thought the most interesting part was the way that the avian aliens assumed humans weren't intelligent, or were less intelligent, and got drawn into thinking that way even when there was plenty of other evidence...of course, this got me thinking about how species or fantasy races are very bad metaphors for human race.

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