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A number of scientists, inventors, and science fiction writers have also credited Tom Swift with inspiring them, including Ray Kurzweil, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov.

The Tom Swift, Jr. adventures were Steve Wozniak's favorite reading as a boy and inspired him to become a scientist.

According to Wozniak, reading the Tom Swift books made him feel " that engineers can save the world from all sorts of conflict and evil ".