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The fifteenth (!) novel in the New TOM SWIFT Invention Adventures series.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 phenomena. After returning Tom sent an unmanned reconnaissance probe back there to keep an eye on things.The time has come to replace it before it "dies." But, when he does the first of the 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.It isn't for the weak at heart, and it isn't something he wants to do, but he must.

In this third trio of novellas celebrating the inventions of the father of Tom Swift, Damon Swift, the seasoned inventor tackles a problem in Africa, one that will soon be in outer space. and then he heads back to Australia for another interesting project.In "Damon Swift and the Duly Deputized Rhino," he must devise a way to protect endangered rhinos from the poaching squads of an evil dictator of one of the newest nations. "Damon Swift and the One-Man Missile" sees him attempting to work with the French designers of a forthcoming space station to rival Enterprises' own Outpost in Space, only to find that they have made far too many mistakes in their design. But it is what they intend to do with the invention he is creating for them that makes him angry.Finally, in "Damon Swift and the Pretend Pterodactyl," he is hired to create a flying lizard for a man who is more interested in getting his name on a new theme park than in doing things right.

Book 16 in this new series sees the young inventor presented with a problem that may or may not happen in a locale so far away it could be meaningless.Or, it could turn deadly!Haley's Comet is swinging back in for its next appearance, only this time it will pass very close to a newly identified planet far outside the orbit of Pluto. Eris is larger than Pluto and even possesses a small moon. So, with the possibility that Eris could influence Haley's trajectory, and if it goes one way it will come too close to the Earth on its pass in a few years, Tom must find a way to get out that far, and fairly quickly.His solution. Simple. Harness a black hole, ride it out past the edge of the solar system and see what happens.Only themission becomes much more diffecult when Haley's smashes into Eris and the planet begins to break up.Now, there will be far more potential deadly pieces of the former planet to deal with unless Tom and his crew can find a way to rebuild it.

In novel 30 of the series, Tom Swift seems to be facing something he could scarcely believe possible a couple years earlier. When a mystery object crashes into a walkway at Swift Enterprises-just feet behind the inventor-it is the start of either one of Tom an Damon Swift's most recent joys... of the start of a terrible nightmare!The Space Friends had disappeared from the solar system a couple years earlier, but it seems they are coming back. And, they will not (or cannot) tell Tom why they are coming. Once they do, a huge surprise is in store for everyone. Even the President of the United States has no idea what to do and allows the Swifts to "run the show."Tom must plan to do something neither Swift has ever considered to be an option; he must design and construct an offensive weapon just in case the visit turns out to not be a friendly one.

After Tom's latest adventure on and inside the Moon, he decides to take on a new project, one for a paying customer of Swift Enterprises. unlike many of his adventures having to do with one ocean or another, this time he will be entirely on the top of it. Or, more correctly, above it.Although not one of its primary markets, the Swifts have built at least one super yacht, so when a very rich man living in Ireland contacts Tom with a request for a very unique new sort of yacht, the inventor considers passing, but comes to the decision that his family needs him to remain grounded for awhile. So, with a budget that is, to his thinking, almost obscenely inflated, and a request that the yacht be so individualized it might never be repeated in the form designed by the inventor, he sets forth to build the nearly impossible.Tom Swift likes building the nearly impossible.The "fly" int he ointment comes in the form of a group who are out to pirate anything on the high seas they see as advantageous to their continued operations, and they have one heck of a way to get around that the inventor must either avoid or find a way to defeat.

The first volume of what will be a multi-book saga: Tom Swift faces two parts of an old comet that have started heading toward Earth. The news media attempts to stir up a really big panic about it all, yet not very many astronomers are certain that it isn't just a tempest in a teacup.Until the day it turns out to be much more than that.While governments dither and scientists endlessly debate, and while religious zealots want people to just give up and pacifists fight with those who say that a nuclear deterrent is what's called for, Tom and his team at Swift Enterprises leap into action.But, if blasting the problem apart isn't a viable solution, what can possibly be?Given the relatively brief amount of time available to take action, is there really something that Tom can do? To make matters worse for Tom, his head of Security has been kidnapped and is nowhere on Earth to be found. But Harlan Ames isn't just sitting as a prisoner-although that is exactly what he is-and their paths are destined to cross again.A pair of megalomaniacs want to enslave the Earth and are going about it by setting up a secret lunar colony and working toward flinging the comet and part of an asteroid to Earth.Now, Tom finds himself with at least four problems to tackle at one time!

In the 19th adventure, Tom is asked for a double-header. Canada wants a version of his bullet train and Europe wants a high-speed cargo transportation system.Both point to similar solutions and each one brings him a new enemy, one political and one deadly dangerous.Canada ought to be easy, but government interference makes it nearly impossible, and just how the heck do you get a thousand tons of cargo across the ocean without using ships?All this and more await you in this novel.

All Tom Swift novels have more than the primary invention from the title, but there is a lack of details about those lesser inventions. How did they come about? Were they part of something else of standalone projects?This series of four collections attempts to put the story behind the 'thingamy' as in, "Tom raced from the room pausing only long enough to cream the thin gamy into his jacket pocket knowing it might come in handy later on."Now you have the latest tales of five of Tom's inventions, plus one from his father, Damon Swift. In this volume is everything from the fight to built a reconnaissance aircraft the Government needs instead of the one they ask for, an incredible set of new musical instruments Tom hopes will help a favorite teacher keep her music program, a high-dive from orbit in only a space suit, an engine that uses only sound, and a giant fish. Most of these are mentioned in various novels from the New Tom Swift Inventions Series (also available from this outlet).

... or, they are more akin to good-length novellas!STORY 1: When a letter arrives inviting Damon to come to New Zealand for a possible project, he nearly refuses due to the terrible time he had on his last visit to Australia. But, he gives the Kiwis the benefit of the doubt and heads Down Under again. With an oceangoing ferry system about the only thing uniting the two main islands, and two of the three about to be taken out of service for major overhauls, they need his help, and almost immediately.He signs on for the project, but is taken by surprise when an old enemy seems to be involved in first a smear campaign and then sabotage and even attempted murder.Will the project be finished, or will it finish with even more deaths?STORY 2: While attempting to test a new drive system for the two main hyper-loop systems, neither of which have been true successes, Damon and his team find they must undertake a recovery mission when the test capsule is catapulted into space.But, things are not as they seem and they soon find themselves embroiled in a brand new mission, and one that will see them all shocked to their cores.Plus an all-new bonus story only in this collection: Damon Swift and the Gizmo

In this second adventure of the new series, young inventor Tom Swift is approached by the airline industry. They have a big problem... well, two problems. First, as people build closer and closer to airports, noise complaints continue to grow. And, rather than tell people to stop moving next to busy airports, several state governments have demanded that additional steps be taken to reduce noise. But, about every possible step has already been instituted. They need Tom's help.The other problem is the soaring price of fuel. So, is there any way Tom can also make jet engines more efficient? Again, just about everything has been done toward that.Design after design and test after test prove insufficient to meet one or the other requirement, and definitely not both of them together. Finally a chance encounter by his sister and girlfriend with a stranger brings a light to the end of Tom's tunnel, and he is off.Through all this Tom and Swift Enterprises have been the victims of industrial espionage. It all comes to a head when, one the very even of Tom's public announcement of a solution, his designs are unveiled by a rival manufacturer.

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Everyone knows Tom Swift, famous teen inventor. But, do you know his mother, Anne Swift, is one of the top molecular biological detectives in the United States? Well, did you know she secretly works special assignments for the FBI? How about that she has never told anyone in her family about her secret work? This is the first trilogy of her stories as she balances being a wife and a mother with being a crackerjack biological detective, helping to solve cases that no other lab or team can handle-or would be allowed to tackle. This volume contains the stories: - Anne Swift and the Deadly Dino DNA - Anne Swift and the Malicious Meteor Mayhem - Anne Swift and the Incendiary Insect Infestation They cover everything from deadly gases hidden in old bones to killer things from outer space to killer things from right here on the ground.

In the 27th novel of this new series, Tom is now back from his adventure on Neptune and had a small mission to accomplish before he feels the previous one is complete. His small unmanned test submarine was lost on its deep sea test in the region of the Mariana Trench south of Guam, and now he wants to go get it back. Nothing is as easy os it sounds, and he must find a way to get Yamato II down to Earth before it can be used.Even when he succeeds (and you just know he will) what he finds deep under the Pacific Ocean will change his way of looking at the world.But, dare he reveal what he and his small crew encounter? Or, could it cause a frenzy of activity from many seafaring nations to try to get down to see what it is for themselves?But first, he must get his new space submarine, the Yamato II, back to Earth so it can be used at the incredible depths he intends to get down to.

Teenage inventor and scientist, Tom Swift, begins an all new series of adventures. In this first story he must find ways to tackle two seemingly disconnected problems: repair the fragile ozone cap over the Antarctic; and bring a vital supply of water to a small African nation on the verge of death by dehydration.Thwarting him on both fronts are the appearance of several unmarked, black MIG fighter jets that attack him and his projects without warning or provocation. But, who is behind them? And, why are the pilots seemingly willing to die rather than be captured?Never one to bring politics into anything he does, Tom finds that he is deeply embroiled in the political situation between his small nation and a neighboring nation's fiendish dictator bent on taking over everything, even if that means killing all of the people of the smaller country.These new adventures of Tom Swift bring the young inventor back to modern times rather than having him set a couple hundred years in the future as with several of the previous series. There are at least 15 books planned (11 already written and awaiting publication) with the possibility of as many as 18-20 in the series. They are written in a style that may be enjoyed by any reader from 9-10 through 100.

In this second book of the trilogy, Tom must continue aiding Harlan Ames and the former slaves-now free citizens-of the Lunar Colony. As Harlan seeks answers to the disappearance and origin of the Empress in Tibet, Tom is working on a project to help both the colony and the entire state of California, both going through severe water shortages and both needing almost immediate relief!His plan is to capture a water-laden comet from outside the orbit of Jupiter, bring it into orbit high over the Moon, mine the ice and then let the water processing facilities of the colony purify it. Then, all he needs to come up with is a way to get the clean water down to Earth.Harlan finds more than he bargains for when he comes upon a woman with the personality of a young girl who has been severely injured. He nurses her back to health, eventually taking her back with him to the Moon. But, what he unleashes might spell the end of thousands of lives.Tom faces success and setbacks as a few of the loyal former Elite members of the colony sabotage his efforts to help save the colony.This is the action-packed sequel to Tom Swift and His Space Battering Ram.

In his 17th adventure, Tom finds himself battling something his scientific knowledge has not prepared him for: personal tragedy!Already having conquered several of science fiction's more difficult problems, Tom Swift is faced with a crisis that will test his abilities nearly to the breaking point.An incredibly close person has been stricken with an inoperable tumor inside his head. The tumor will kill him in months, or an operation might do it sooner. At the very least, standard medical procedures would leave him with brain damage.When Doc Simpson proposes an impossible task, Tom, who is mentally fatigued almost to the breaking point, finds that he must rally if there is anything to do to save the man. But the Doctor himself refuses to consider the treatment Tom has in mind when he finds out that what the inventor proposes is more like a living video game that serious surgery.Will it be possible to convince him to let Tom-an unskilled surgeon at the very best-perform the life-saving procedure?And, can Tom rally his emotional and physical strength long enough to make the operation a success?

In book 23 of this series, the colonists on Mars have been living in peace and relative comfort, until it is discovered that one of the two small moons racing overhead, Phobos, seems to have dropped in altitude and is continuing to come closer. Since this was not suppose to be at a rate of more than a few inches a year, but is in the hundreds of miles, this is a great worry to them. And, to Tom Swift.He arrives on Mars and uses his repelatron-powered ship, The Challenger, to push the moon back up into position only to find that it starts coming back down. An investigation on the surface of Phobos shows that it has a higher gravity than it should, and the only reason Tom can figure is that the former Space Friends must have planted one of their gravity generating stones somewhere. But, where?And, once he finds it, how can he go about digging more than a hundred feet onto a moon that is barely held together and is composed of rocks and dust gathered over more than a million years. One false dig and the entire thing could break apart.The Space Friends are of no help as they have all but disappeared. So, Tom sets out to do the impossible; replace Phobos in its rightful position once and for all times so the colony can go back to being safe.

Way back when Tom Swift invented his Jetmarine submarine, he also came up with a combination escape and deep water exploration suit. Golden and egg-shaped it was soon dubbed the "Fat Man" suit. Entry was through a forward-facing round hatch/viewport that only allowed the occupant to see what was right in front of him or her. With the Model B, Tom reworked the configuration and made the suit more adaptable to a civilian user. This was all done with an eye toward selling the suits. And, sell they did, ultimately numbering over 3,900 before production was shut down. Like the original the suit provided a single operator a comfortable seat, propulsion to scoot around in great depths, and a pair of retractable arms and legs letting the user walk on the floor of the ocean and grab onto things. Unlike the original, Model B was capable of remaining underwater for more than a day and had an escape system in case of a crisis. This is the user's guide (or Owner's Manual if you will) for the suit as it was being finalized. The artwork was eventually replaced with photographs and the whole thing printed in full color. Sadly, none of the original art still exists today, and so this reproduction of that nearly-complete manual is all that is possible to produce. Enjoy going through the guide and imagining yourself sitting inside one of these golden beauties.

The 31st book in this series. Tom Swift and his father are among the best in the world when it comes to designing and building safe and powerful nuclear-based power generators. In fact, Damon Swift became the first ever wholly self-funded, private designer and operator of a nuclear power and research center, the Citadel in New Mexico.Now, Tom is called upon to come up with something so new and radical to create a nearly endless stream of electricity meant to replace several old or even decommissioned nuclear plants in the Pacific Northwest-an area known for its environmentalist and demand for safe energy.He searches for a way to outdo the best of the best, and with his father's help and blessings, sets out to build a better reactor. The problem is, and he discovers this early on, nuclear power may have already hit its upper limits.Is there something he can do that will give the people of Canada, and even Washington, Oregon and parts of Idaho, what they need. Will it be clean and, above all, safe!Will a determined group of underground eco-terrorists manage to destroy what he is building before it has the chance to prove its worth?

In book 24 of this new series, Tom Swift runs afoul of several flying vehicles including a recent Venus Probe sent to study seismic activity on the super hot second planet. What he does not realize is he will be drawn into a rescue mission when the designers fail to take into consideration many things that go toward keeping a tall structure upright.Before he can even plan a rescue Tom and Bud Barclay must wrestle a small jet down to the ground when someone tries to knock them from the sky. Then, he and another pilot take a test flight that ends in Tom being a crash victim in an unfriendly country where he is rescued by a resistance organization but not before the government there declares to the world that the is dead!Finally, when the mission to Venus looks as if it can be handled by a robot, it soon becomes clear that it will take a human touch. And, we all know that means Tom Swift!

Within each Tom Swift novel there are a couple major characters who you get to know, and a lot of secondary characters who walk in, say a few lines, and walk out. You never get the chance to know who they are other that in that contextI have set about writing back stories for these people. The novels may not have the 9,000 - 15,000 words to devote to giving you a good background story about them, but these collections do.This fourth book contains stories about Ken Horton, the commander of Tom's Outpost in Space, one about the girlfriend that never was, another about Tom's sister Sandy as she turns sixteen and becomes a very determined young woman, the very first cookbook from Chow Winkler (including his Rattlesnake Soup recipe), and the tale of how the special evacuation device used at the Outpost came to be.

In this 14th volume in the New Tom Swift Invention Series, Tom hope to improve on a small parlor trick he had come up with months earlier, when the U.S. Navy asks him to find a way to turn stealth ships into truly invisible ones.While it seems to be easier than he ever thought it might be, the young inventor is kidnapped, tossed from a moving truck and his test vehicle, a special read coupe, is stolen. Making matters worse, the thieves include an International terrorist, four rogue FBI agents and a Navy officer gone bad.Now, Tom must discover a way to see through his invisibility shield to hopefully get the coupe back. However, what happens if he succeeds? Does his ability to defeat his own invention mean it now becomes useless?

Anne Swift has solved dozens of secret medical cases for the FBI in her more than 20 years of handling many of the most deadly and insidious mysteries while the details of only a few have ever been released for public viewing. This book is a collection of her first ten "acknowledged" adventures. It includes the excerpted case from her biography (ANNE SWIFT: Making the Molecular Biological Detective, 2015) detailing her very first FBI case, the lengthy interview she gave after her "retirement" and the announcement to the world of who she was and what she had done for this nation, and even the first case she took after that interview when she grew restless. Also in this collection is a never-before-seen short story, Anne's Swiftest Case, a bonus only available in this collection. The first nine stories have appeared in trilogies-three of those-in the past. Now, at a greatly reduced overall price, they are available in one book.

Tom Swift novels feature his major inventions, some books even delving into great details about them. But, his lesser inventions? They get the old, "He grabbed one of his fribbles and raced after the bad guys!" Fribble? This series of four collections attempts to put the story behind the 'Fribbles' in Tom Swift books. Of course, it usually is a vital device for him, but space and word count requirements usually meant such details had to be left out. Now you have the third set of seven of Tom's inventions available, everything from the origin of his L'il Idiot computers to the creation of a sort of Frankenstein typewriter to headlights that can see through dust storms, and more. To add to the fun, one of the main stories is a tale about Tom's father and the invention he used to save the Swifts from financial ruin when young Tom was just a toddler. This collection features a bonus, very short story at the end of the book.

In this BONUS EDITION 11th novel in the Tom Swift Invention Series, the young inventor witnesses the near catastrophic fire at the historic Shopton Hotel. He is suspicious when he sees a woman leaving the scene, being extra careful to hide her identity. Tom's best friend, Bud Barclay, is almost killed in a fire bomber accident and that gets Tom started on coming up with a safe solution.His desire to get involved is strengthened when a series of other fires across the country begin causing massive destruction. A close friend pleads with him to do something and so Tom sets out to develop a new type of fire fighting system-one that is self-contained and needs no water.The discovery of a notebook left by his great grandfather--the first Tom Swift--leads him on a new path, one that includes taking his system to the air. But there is a special danger lurking for him.An old enemy appears to be back and ready to drag Tom into something that might mean his death.Will Tom be able to get his new fire fighter finished in time to make a difference? Or, will his enemy surprise him and bring an end to his life?This edition contains a BONUS NOVELLA, "Tom Swift and His Aerial Firetruck"-the story behind the first Tom Swift's original aerial fire fighting device.

Adventure 22 in this new series sees Tom and Bud and their wives vacationing in Barbados, only to discover a terrible food shortage is about to befall several Caribbean islands. Tom's wife wants him to help, but it is only once a relatively new British Ministry comes to Swift Enterprises with money and an official request that he finds he may have an idea or two.The major obstacle is how do you build farm land on a totally used island where nothing more exists without ruining the ecology?When he settles on a unique growing environment, there are many things to overcome, not the least of which are rampant rumors on many of the islands saying that the Swifts are out to capture and steal their land. One man is so angry he shoots Tom during a public event.But, not a lot can get the inventor down except for a returning enemy out to destroy him and the humanitarian project. Obstacle after obstacle are overcome as he works to finish his SeaSpace HydroFarm.

Within each Tom Swift novel there are a couple major characters who you get to know, and a lot of secondary characters who walk in, say a few lines, and walk out. You never get the chance to know who they are other than in that context. I have set about writing back stories for these people. The novels may not have the 9,000 - 15,000 words to devote to giving you a good background story about them, but these collections do. This first book contains stories about the original Tom Swift's wife, Mary Nestor, and her diary entries from their honeymoon, a story where ranch chef Chow Winkler gets challenged to a cooking contest, one story about Enterprises' security chief and his assistant as they solve an international blackmail incident aimed at their boss, another is a university lecture given by George Dilling, head of Communications, and finally a book about young Tom Swift and his very proud father.

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There have been 8 Anne Swift medical mysteries reported plus the interview she gave upon retiring from her work-collected in a trio of trilogies-but not a word about how she became interested in Biology enough to get an undergraduate degree in the subject, and a graduate degree and even a doctorate in the field... and then just gave it up to be a wife and mother.Granted, her son is the famous young inventor, Tom Swift (or will be when he grows up) and her husband is Damon Swift, head of Swift Enterprises.This is the book that takes us along with Anne from the age of about 13 through her days in school, falling in love, marriage and how she was enticed into becoming a super, secret scientist for the FBI.And how she had to keep it all a secret. From EVERYBODY!And how she even helped cure a nasty type of cancer at the age of 18.Plus, her entire first FBI case.So, part biography and part medical mystery, this is how the girl became the woman and what drove her to become one of the top Molecular Biological Detectives around!------------------------------Also available and published in a trio of novella collections, the original Anne Swift stories: Anne Swift and the Microbial Murder MessAnne Swift and the Nasty Nuclear NodulesAnne Swift and Scary Scroungy ScrofulaAnne Swift and the Deadly Dino DNAAnne Swift and the Malicious Meteor MayhemAnne Swift and the Incendiary Incect InfestationAnne Swift and the Alien Anticoagulant AnomalyAnne Swift: Interview With a MoBiDetAnne Swift and the Pernicious Parasite Pandemi

In his second novel, Damon Swift takes us through the trials and tribulations he must go through in order to build his eponymous nuclear research and power facility in New Mexico, the Citadel.He finds that Washington DC is not ready for someone with new and different plans fora nuclear reactor and runs int more stupidity, un-education and "It's not my job" problems as he attempts to get the necessary licenses to build, fuel and operate a small reactor that will be the absolutely safest reactor in the world.This is the story about how he bumps into a man who will become his champion and his friend and help cut the red tape. It is also about how they must continue to fight for what Damon knows to be right an his friend, Senator Peter Quintana, whole-heartedly believes in.