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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9302931" data-attributes="member: 7044704">&quot;Sequel&quot; is more accurate than &quot;reboot&quot; for the first Junior series.&nbsp; There's some actual continuity (characters, background details, some of Senior's inventions) from his father's books, although the most problematic stuff is just plain not talked about at all.&nbsp; The other four Junior runs are all true reboots with no real connections to one another.&nbsp; Note that my cautions about the first Tom Junior series apply one hundredfold to his father's books.&nbsp; The period racial stereotyping in particular is too much to suffer through for a rather tedious kid's book, and later books in the series are kind of appallingly gleeful about military inventions - as you might expect for a series written from 1910 to 1941.&nbsp; I've managed to force myself through a mere four of these things, and don't recommend reading any of it.&nbsp; The sole point of interest is the fact that Tom (not Senior yet) actually ages considerably throughout the series, starting off as a teenager living with his father to a married man from 1929 onward.&nbsp; To put it mildly, an protagonist aging (much less growing into an adult and starting a family) in one of these series is almost unheard of - they're almost invariably ageless and unchanging for as long as things last.The first Tom Junior series (published from 1954 to 1971) made a point of Tom Jr. refusing to develop offensive weapons technologies, at least in theory (although what the Pentagon would do with repelatron tech is studiously ignored).&nbsp; Still had quite a lot of obvious Cold War influences, including helping (nonviolently) win the Space Race against the thinly-veiled dictatorships Brulgaria and Kranjovia.Which series?&nbsp; Junior's had five so far.&nbsp; Thread link doesn't seem aimed at the post you were after.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9302931, member: 7044704"] "Sequel" is more accurate than "reboot" for the first Junior series. There's some actual continuity (characters, background details, some of Senior's inventions) from his father's books, although the most problematic stuff is just plain not talked about at all. The other four Junior runs are all true reboots with no real connections to one another. Note that my cautions about the first Tom Junior series apply one hundredfold to his father's books. The period racial stereotyping in particular is too much to suffer through for a rather tedious kid's book, and later books in the series are kind of appallingly gleeful about military inventions - as you might expect for a series written from 1910 to 1941. I've managed to force myself through a mere four of these things, and don't recommend reading any of it. The sole point of interest is the fact that Tom (not Senior yet) actually ages considerably throughout the series, starting off as a teenager living with his father to a married man from 1929 onward. To put it mildly, an protagonist aging (much less growing into an adult and starting a family) in one of these series is almost unheard of - they're almost invariably ageless and unchanging for as long as things last. The first Tom Junior series (published from 1954 to 1971) made a point of Tom Jr. refusing to develop offensive weapons technologies, at least in theory (although what the Pentagon would do with repelatron tech is studiously ignored). Still had quite a lot of obvious Cold War influences, including helping (nonviolently) win the Space Race against the thinly-veiled dictatorships Brulgaria and Kranjovia. Which series? Junior's had five so far. Thread link doesn't seem aimed at the post you were after. [/QUOTE]

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