Download or read book 25 Tom Swift and the HoverCity HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tom Swift and the HoverCity written by Victor Appleton II and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the history-making 25th book in this new series.Tom Swift has been involved in many projects in his 28 years, some horrifically dangerous and some very tame and fun, but he has never been involved in trying to make the impossible, possible, and never has he worked with a "UFOs exist" man who might actually be onto something!Until now.When a very rich man comes to Tom telling him of the almost crippling lack of land on which people might build without deforesting large areas or ripping out growing fields, farms and ranches, Tom cannot argue the point. He'd even been involved building underwater growing environments before. Land was what we have and we cannot build any more of it.Or, can we?The man sets forth a challenge: build a city in the sky. Not something up on poles but an honest to gosh floating city.The city part is easy; the floating part may take a crackpot idea to work!
Download or read book 22 Tom Swift and His SeaSpace HydroFarm HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 6 Tom Swift Galactic Ambassador HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hardbound edition of the 6th novel in the series brings back some of Tom's old friend: his Space Friends. Since their first interaction Tom has tried to get them to provide details about themselves so he can assist them in their mission to visit the Earth. Until he makes a surprise advancement in how he ""reads"" their symbol messages, he has had frustration after disappointment. Now that he has an understanding he is horrified to find that their ""masters"" have declared their mission a failure and will be recalling them, forever, in just a few short weeks. Now he races against time trying to develop both a vehicle and an environment capable of supporting them. Just when he thinks he has succeeded, disaster strikes. Not only is his new flying environment destroyed, but now the Masters insist the Space Friends won't be the ones coming for a visit, it will be them! Tom knows that can't be allowed and so he must work overtime to complete a new environment, be a diplomat and get ready for the visit.
Download or read book 18 Tom Swift and His Thermo Ion Jetpack HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th book of the series. Like many people, Tom Swift-and his father, Damon-have dreamed of the days when the personal jet backpacks we've heard about since the 1940s become reality. When a movie director from Hollywood comes to Tom to create the real thing-he demands reality in his science fiction films with special effects-it intrigues the young inventor enough to see what he might create. It's a lot harder than it first appears! He must convince the director that his plans to have a 1940's period piece with leather jackets and bullet-nosed SCUBA tank-shaped rockets has to be updated to match what he believes might be deliverable as a real device. The suit is hijacked by the stuntman and ends up shooting him into space making necessary a search and rescue mission. In the end, it is up to Bud Barclay to save the day and fly the suit for the film. But, a sudden attack might be sending him on a collision course with death. Can Tom rescue his best friend and save the movie?
Download or read book 3 Tom Swift and the Transcontinental BulleTrain HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hardbound edition of the third book in the series, the President, desperate to leave some sort of legacy, has promised the nation that a great freight-hauling bullet train system will cross the country starting in just one year. The biggest problem? Nobody has started to design or build anything on a project that should take 10 years. When his advisors hatch a plan to split the work into dozens of manageable pieces, only a small handful of companies sign on. Tom Swift believes that he can figure a way to dig the massive tunnels under the various mountain ranges on the western half of the country, and may even be able to build the locomotive engines, but the other companies begin to abandon their work, making it necessary for Enterprises to take on more and more. A rival company owner has it in for Tom, and a mysterious source of governmental sabotage is somewhere in Washington DC. With time and so many other things against him, is it going to be a mission impossible for the young inventor?
Download or read book TOM SWIFT and the Lunar Volcano HB written by Thomas Hudson & Leo L. Levesque and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd book in the Saga: The Emperor Shangri-La died trying to attack the Earth in book 1; the Empress-his twin sister-died trying to attack Tom Swift in book 2. Now, it seems the very Moon on which they built their Shangri-La colony of slaves is on the brink of being attacked by the ground under their feet. Harlan Ames, former Swift Enterprises Chief of Security has been the Administrator of the now free colony but is getting anxious to take his twin children back to Earth. Their safety may depend on it; their mother was the much hated Empress! But, something bad is happening inside the Moon. He hopes his old boss can figure things out before it is too late. In the meantime, he leaves his children in the care of Lola "Grandma" Reyes at the lunar colony while he heads out to see if there is anything to discover at the former "Master's" ruined fortress in the Philippines. It is a race against time to see if clues can be found to help avoid a catastrophe.
Download or read book 16 Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Sky Racer written by Victor Appleton and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American boys' fiction under pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate who produced Tom Swift series, Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, Dave Fearless and many others.
Download or read book 15 Tom Swift and the Yesterday Machine HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 15th novel in the New TOM SWIFT Invention Adventures. Just two years ago Tom Swift and his best friend, Bud Barclay, journeyed through a wormhole and nearly lost their lives investigating a black hole. After returning Tom sent an unmanned probe back there to keep an eye on things. The time has come to replace it. But, when he does the first videos sent back reveal something so startling that Tom isn't certain what to believe. The probe shows him something Tom knows had to be in the past. What might it mean? The first thought he has is some sort of time fluctuation has occurred. He is hesitant to refer to it as "time travel." But, what if that is exactly what it is? Is it something that can be replicated and used on Earth. Or, can the source of the phenomena be taken from its location back to Earth? Tom can only imagine the possibilities and sets out testing in until a personal tragedy forces him to try something radical.
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Sky Racer written by Victor Appleton and published by Quiet Vision Pub. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive Illustrated written by Victor Appleton and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails, is Volume 25 in the original Tom Swift novel series
Download or read book 10 Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 14 Tom Swift and the Coupe of Invisibility HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hardbound edition of the 14th novel in the New Tom Swift Invention Series, Tom is approached by the U.S. Navy to do the impossible: make their RADAR-invisible ships truly invisible, even to the human eye in broad daylight! Things progress almost too well before disaster strikes. During a test of a small car outfitted with the technology, a group of terrorists and turncoats kidnap Tom, nearly killing him as they steal the invisible coupe. He must come up with a way to not just see his nearly perfectly invisible car, he must also do it in some way so that he doesn't ruin its use in the Navy project. It is a balance of tasks that are almost too much for the young inventor to juggle. And, with the Navy and the FBI breathing down his neck, has Tom overstretched himself on this one?
Download or read book 8 Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts HB written by Victor Appleton II and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express written by Victor Appleton (II.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Jr. and his friend, Bud Barclay, foil a criminal plot to conquer the universe.
Download or read book The Adventures of Tom Swift Volume Two written by Victor Appleton and published by Brownstone Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected in Volume Two are Tom Swift's second four adventures: "Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout," "Tom Swift and His Wireless Message," "Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers," and "Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice."
