Herbert's Wormhole

By: Peter Nelson, Rohitash Rao

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Hardcover | 5 May 2009

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Herbert Slewg and his hapless, video game-addicted neighbor Alex Filby have stumbled upon what Einstein could only theorize about: a wormhole through the space/time continuum. They travel 100 years into the future of their no-longer-boring town and are mistaken for alien slayers . . . in a world run by a benevolent alien race with cheerful Australian accents and uncomfortably fake facial hair. Herbert, Alex, and their mutual crush, Sammi Clementine, century-hop across time in order to outwit a disgruntled "G'Dalien. By foiling his evil plot, they save the planet and become 22nd-century hometown heroes in this smart-alecky (but friendly), inventive, wry, and very visual creation.

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When ten-year-old Alex Filby zaps the last alien in his Alien Slayer 2 game, his parents celebrate - not because he won, but because Alex promised to play outside for the rest of the summer if he finished the game. They've even made a play date for him with the genius inventor boy next door, Herbert Slewg. Herbert's newest invention, Negative Energy Densifiers, are supposed to make matter permeable, but instead they send Alex and Herbert 100 years into the future, where humans and G'daliens (aliens with Australian accents, six tentacles and bad hair pieces) are the best of friends...mostly. GOR-DON was spurned by a human female and wants to take over the world. Alex, Herbert, friend Sammi and a surprising old man team up to ruin GOR-DON's plans. Nelson's first reads like a missing volume in the Time Warp Trio series without as much deadpan sarcasm. Rao's line drawings are more like frequent illustrations than cartoons and at times do not agree with the text. While it's not as funny as it thinks it is, it could function as a next step after Scieszka's series. (Science fiction. 7-11) (Kirkus Reviews)

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