Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier...
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author. For this series, and some later ones, the main character is "Tom Swift Jr." New titles have been published again from 2019 after a gap of about...
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books in the various Tom Swift book series. All books are credited to the pseudonym Victor Appleton (or, in the case of the Tom Swift Jr. series, Victor Appleton...
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Look up Swift, swift, or SWIFT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: SWIFT, an international organization facilitating...
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Boys. Daring, resourceful Tom Swift Jr. is the teenage son of gifted scientist Tom Swift Sr. and Mary Nestor. However, Tom is also gifted scientist and...
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These are the regular characters from the original Tom Swift series of books (1910-1941). Tom Swift — The main character, a lad living with his widower...
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Lawrence, was an American author best known for authoring most of the Tom Swift Jr. series of books (under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II) and Friday...
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Tom Swift is the name of the central fictional character in six series of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels. Tom Swift Jr., a character in...
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Victor Appleton (category Tom Swift)
Don Sturdy, 1925–1935 Tom Swift, Jr., 1954–1971 (technically, "Victor Appleton II") Tom Swift (Third Series), 1981–1984 Tom Swift (Fourth Series), 1991–1993...
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children. In Tom Swift on The Phantom Satellite (1956), it is also the name given to a small four-footed robot designed by Tom Swift Jr., the boy inventor...
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Skylark series of E. E. "Doc" Smith. The main characters are homages to Tom Swift Jr. and his buddy, Bud Barclay. It also includes a homage to Larry Niven's...
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Syndicate by James Duncan Lawrence (who also authored the majority of the Tom Swift Jr. series) in 1960. The Hardys purchase a Chinese junk named the Hai Hau...
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of science fiction. At age eight, nine, and ten, he read the entire Tom Swift Jr. series. At age seven or eight, he built a robotic puppet theater and...
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starting Apple Computer. In his autobiography, iWoz, he also credits the Tom Swift Jr. books as an inspiration for becoming an engineer. In 1969, Wozniak returned...
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Lepton orbiting at only 1,000 miles (1,600 km). The 1956 Tom Swift, Jr. juvenile novel, Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite, features a new moon entering...
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musical Grease Sandra "Sandy" Swift, daughter and brother of fictional genius inventors Tom Swift Sr. and Tom Swift Jr., respectively Sandra Bell-Lundy...
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producing the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Rover Boys, and Tom Swift series. The Syndicate produced these and many other series in assembly-line...
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series for children, including Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others. It published and...
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opposed to the United States and a principal source of antagonists in the Tom Swift Jr. book series. Buronia: A European monarchy in the North Sea next to the...
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Ngaio Marsh Ngombia: West African country featured in the 1963 Tom Swift Jr. novel Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway. Niberia: African country in the 2009...
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Syndicate by James Duncan Lawrence (who also wrote the majority of the Tom Swift Jr. series) in 1957. Between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes of this...
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1912–1943) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tom Swift – In the Tom Swift Jr. book Tom Swift and The Deep-Sea Hydrodome (1958), Tom invents the "repellatron". The device...
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television series Fearing Island: island site of rocket base in the Tom Swift, Jr. novels Felimath: the second largest of the three Lone Islands in The...
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Brains has taken a position with SwifTech Labs (headed by non-other than Tom Swift Jr.) and has a girlfriend who is an investigative reporter. By Thomas Hudson:...
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scientist who frequently invents monsters to combat various danger Tom Swift and Tom Swift, Jr. (children's stories) – father-and-son team of inventors Crawford...
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engine, generally similar to the turbo-pumpjet engine developed by Tom Swift, Jr. or the later magnetohydrodynamic engine used in the fictional submarine...
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science in the stories is realistic, unlike the more fantastic science of Tom Swift, Jr. In the series, Rick Brant lives on Spindrift Island off the coast of...
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Syndicate by James Duncan Lawrence (who also authored the majority of the Tom Swift Jr. series) in 1959. Between 1959 and 1973 the first 38 volumes of this...
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book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Tom Mulvey (who also wrote volume 8 of the Tom Swift Jr. series) in 1967. Mulvey was also responsible for...
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Biographies Skippy Dare Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1952–1956) Tom Slade Tom Swift (1910–1941) Tom Swift, Jr. (1954–1971) Tom Quest (1947–1955) The Universal...
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