21-Tom Swift and the Solar Chaser (HB)
21-Tom Swift and the Solar Chaser (HB)

Author: Victor Appleton II

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-13

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1387162764

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In the twenty-first novel in this new series, Tom has defeated the Electricity Vampires and now wants something a bit less diabolical to take up his time. A new X-Prize is announced that intrigues him: fly a solar-powered aircraft, non-stop, around the globe in just 36 hours! That sort of speed will require an electrical powered jet, and that will burn up a lot of electricity. So, how can he manage to make what he needs by day... and still have enough to run at full speed at night? Might his recently discovered cousin in England, Thomasina Swift, be of some assistance? After all, she and her partner, Betty, have come up with an incredible solar cloth! Just as long as nothing ""exotic"" is used like one of Tom's Power Pods. Complicating things is a mysterious woman, and a deadly opponent, seemingly out to keep Tom from winning or perhaps from ever getting back home alive.

Tom Swift and the Solar Chaser
Tom Swift and the Solar Chaser

Author: Victor Appleton II

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-06-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781547171712

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In the twenty-first novel in this new series, Tom has defeated the Electricity Vampires and now wants something a bit less diabolical to take up his time. A new X-Prize is announced that intrigues him: fly a solar-powered aircraft, non-stop, around the globe in just 36 hours! That sort of speed will require an electrical powered jet, and that will burn up a lot of electricity. So, how can he manage to make what he needs by day... and still have enough to run at full speed at night? Might his recently discovered cousin in England, Thomasina Swift, be of some assistance? Complicating things is a mysterious woman and a deadly opponent out to keep Tom from winning or perhaps from ever getting back home.

23-Tom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-Placement (HB)
23-Tom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-Placement (HB)

Author: Victor Appleton II

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1387596160

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In this hardbound edition of novel 23 in this series, Tom must travel to Mars to find out just why the small moon, Phobos, has suddenly begun coming close to the surface. In fact it is coming down to lower and lower orbits that could, within months, endanger the colonists on the planet below. He first tries to use brute force and to push it back into higher orbit, but nearly loses several spacecraft in the attempt. So, he now is faced with finding out the why of it all before he can find a solution that won't mean simply destroying the moon. That, he fears, might backfire and do damage to the colony and the planet. He tries to find some answers with the aid of his Space Friends, but they seem to have disappeared from his life. Without their help he mounts an expedition of Phobos and finds about the last thing he might think of. Now it is a race against time to see if he can rectify the situation and re-place Phobos in its correct orbit.

Damon Swift and the CosmoSoar: a novel (HB)
Damon Swift and the CosmoSoar: a novel (HB)

Author: T. Edward Fox

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-04-05

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1365519449

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The Tom Swift adventure about his Rocket Ship doesn't tell much of the real tale other than the build and launch. In fact it just assumes that things like Fearing Island exist and his own father, Damon, has nothing better to do than stand and watch his son shoot into space. The truth is Damon also built a privately-funded rocket as part of an X-Prize competition. His was unique with a series of obstacles to overcome and began even before Tom had finished his Flying Lab. This included locating and building out Fearing Island off the coast of Georgia and everything that went into that massive operation. This is the story of how Fearing island came to be, how Damon became very good friends with the U.S. Senator who would play a large part in their lives, how he designed and built something more like a monstrous child's toy than a heavy-lifting rocket, and how he and Tom went into a friendly competition to see whose rocket would be launched first. It is a unique look into the father of Tom Swift.

16-Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet (HB)
16-Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet (HB)

Author: Victor Appleton II

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1365096955

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In this hardbound edition of Tom's 16th adventure in this series, he finds out that a newly classified exo-planet outside Pluto's orbit is about to have a close encounter with the return of Haley's Comet. The problem is that at such distances nobody can tell just how close. A visit to the Planet, Eris, is called for but he must first devise a ay to travel faster than he ever has before so the trip can be accomplished before the pass by. What he comes up with astounds even his father, and that takes a lot! Tom, Bud and their crew arrive in time to witness a catastrophic collision that begins the slow and inevitable break up of the planet. But, trouble is brewing as calculations show some of the debris will eventually drift in and possibly collide with Mars and the Earth. What to do? Nobody has ever tried to put an entire planet back together. This is a Humpty Dumpty exercise of planetary proportions.

Tom Swift Lives! X-Flight Solarplane
Tom Swift Lives! X-Flight Solarplane

Author: Scott Dickerson

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 9781980967828

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Trapped deep beneath the Arctic icesheet, a revolutionary Russian exploration vehicle and her desperate crew await rescue. Hopes are rekindled by word that famed American Tom Swift will attempt to reach them in his own remarkable invention, the icecraft.The rescue effort is imperilled by a world threat the young inventor had thought forestalled, a molecular menace spreading itself uncontrollably among the silicon microchips that sustain the technology of modern civilization. Defying all attempts at containment, the technoplague looms over a monumental project, Tom's solarplane -- an unmanned sky raft larger than an ocean liner, designed for unending flight in the ionosphere. Vital to progress in taming global warming, the mammoth solarplane is a tempting and vulnerable target for a web of conspirators who strike without warning with murderous efficiency. The baffling threats and scientific mysteries pursue Tom and his friend Bud beneath polar ice, in solar space, on Russia's fantastic stratosphere station, and at last in the high ionosphere -- where Tom must win a deadly duel in a world where the stars never dim!