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Writing the--fairly reasonable--American novel(s) First, a little story. Back in late 2009 I pulled out a couple of my old Tom Swift Jr. books. I wanted to read them—for the first time in about a dozen years—to see if the stories still held up. Well, they do... sort of. I went out on the Internet to see if there was anything new and Swifty going on and much to my surprise, a very nice man named Scott Dickerson has a site devoted to his own reimagined and all-new Tom Jr. stories. See the link to his site at the bottom of this page. Never one to just sit around, I just sat around and typed my little fingers off and came up with a new Tom Swift story all on my own. Then, a second one rushed out. As of today, I have finished five a further three in various stages. Ihope to complete them at 5 to 6 month intervals. I call my series the Tom Swift Invention Series. I have based my stories on the reimagined world of Scott's Tom Swift Lives! series because I realy like what he has done with the characters. Since starting, I have been in contact with Scott and two other very good fan fiction authors who are also creating new stories in the Tom Swift universe. With the 100th anniversary of publication of the very first TS novel happening in 2010, the world of Tom got its own conference at which we four authors were invited to participate; and much fun was had by all. The following books may be purchased from one of the publishers who are printing my books. They are available as quality paperbound volumes, and as downloads. Click any cover and it should take you right to the order page for that book. NOTE: Selected volumes are also available in hand-bound collector's editions. Also available are four novels from the original 1910 Tom Swift series, now rewritten and reimagined (by me) with more science, better mechanics, and with refined wording to remove much of the racial slurs. I have also written numerous novellas featuring individual inventions. Many are parts of 7-story collections that may be found on this page. And, there is a whole world of Character Short Stories featuring many of the people who live and work with and around Tom Swift. Most appear in 3, 4 and 5 story collections. FIRST FIVE BOOKS AVAILABLE IN A HAND-BOUND COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS (click here)
ORDER THIS BOOK EnvirOzone Revivicator is my first all-new full-length novel. Tom and his father are ordered by the G-20 Environmental Committee to clean up the pollution Swift Enterprises creates. Since Enterprises is already one of the cleanest, greenest companies in the world and has almost nothing they can "clean up,", Tom sets out to try to repair the ozone layer that is mostly missing over the Antarctic. At the same time he is trying to design and perfect his Revivicators, he gets involved with a small African nation, currently in a multi-year drought and about to suffer major deaths due to dehydration. Can Tom pull off a double-header? Can he fix the ozone hole and save thousands of people?
ORDER THIS BOOK In QuieTurbine Skyliner, Tom is asked to help rescue the airline industry from bankruptcy. Crippling fuel costs combined with lawsuits and new laws regarding airport and jet noise are driving them into the ground. Tom struggles with creating a new type of jet turbine; an engine that is as powerful as today's turbines yet uses considerably less fuel and produced far less noise. industrial spies and competitors try to make him fail, but Tom is determined. To achieve his goals he must also design a new aircraft type. However, this is one time he may have taken on more than even he can handle.
ORDER THIS BOOK In Transcontinental BulleTrain, Enterprises wins part of a bid to built the nation's first coast-to-coast bullet train, but one meant to swiftly carry freight rather than passengers. The catch? Trains must carry more than current freight trains, make the trip in under 20 hours, and do it without stopping to refuel. The biggest issue? The Rockie Mountains, The Sierra Nevada Mountains and lots of hills and mountains in between. Tom decides to concentrate on creating a super-fast tunnel digging machine, but soon finds that he must take on building teh engines, the cars and at least two thirds of the actual track as other construction firms bow out one by one. He is determined to make both the bullet train and Swift Enterprises' participation a success but time is not his only enemy. ORDER THIS BOOK In Oceanic SubLiminator, the young inventor helps the U.S. Navy save the crew of a stricken nuclear submarine and later to salvage it. But, he learns about a terrible secret. Not only are there more than a half dozen missing nuclear subs scattered across the Atlantic ocean, there are numerous missing nuclear-tipped torpedoes and other materials. Congress and the Navy ask that he help to recover as many as he can. To assist him, the Navy provides him with a mothballed super submarine once meant as an attack sub carrier. His efforts are shadowed by a mysterious submarine that doesn't exist manned by a crew determined to make him fail. Or, die. But, the biggest secret lies ahead. ORDER THIS BOOK In Cyclonic Eradicator, hurricanes are killing thousands and causing almost incalcuable damage each year, and they seem to be getting worse. Tom wonders if the old saying about how you can't do anything about the weather is actually true as sets out to see. Along the way, he becomes the target of an old enemy's attempts to kill him. He also runs into one very large stumbling block: he can figure out the type of things that need to be done, he just can't seem to find out what will do it. Then, once he understands that, can he devise a way to actually put everything together and do what no man has ever done? ORDER THIS BOOK In Tom Swift: Galactic Ambassador, the Swift's space friends let Tom know they either need to fulfill their mission and visit the Earth, or be recalled to their home planet forever. The race they consider to be their masters is trying to forc ethe issue and come to Earth with them, but Tom is having enough trouble just trying to figure out how to succeed with one race. To make things worse, there is someone bent on makig things as difficult for him right in Shopton as they can. And, they are not afraid to use deadly force to do it!
ORDER THIS BOOK In Paradox Planet, Tom is visiting a college to help them with a student rocketry project when he receives word that one of our solar system's planets has disappeared. There is no trace of debris or foul play. When he sends two ultra-fast probe rockets to investigate, the first one simply disappears while the second is grabbed my some mysterious force and flung millions of miles off course. To complicate his life, the wells at Helium City, deep under the Atlantic Ocean, are running dry, years before they should. Now he has two mysteries. One of them turns potentially disastrous when the missing planet reappears and begins hurtling iward, toward a near Earth miss and collision with the Sun. Both could have deadly consequences!
ORDER THIS BOOK Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts is first and foremost, NOT an updating of the final book in the Tom Swift Jr. adventures. It is an entirely new story and was written with one thing in mind: the original was crap as a story, but intriguing as a title. When it becomes known that the Earth could be threatened by an anomaly in a nearby solar system--that might or might not be a black hole--Tom and Bud discover a way to travel great intragalactic distances using tiny wormholes. The object they find is not what they expected. Whatever it might be seems to be running backwards, spewing out matter rather than sucking it in. What they discover when they get up close for a look stuns them and Tom can find no logical or illogical explanation for it! The worst part? Tom and Bud are trapped, lightyears from Earth, and are running out of food, water, air, fuel, time... and options. Due to a more intense set of situations, this book may not be appropriate for readers under 10 years of age. The following two books are being written. They will be available at approximately six month intervals beginning in December, 2012. Once they are available, you will be able to click on these as well.
In addition to the Tom Swift stories, I also write stories under the pseudonym of T. Edward Fox. They may be found on this page. As if my efforts aren't enough, you can take a look at all the books Scott Dickerson has either reimagined
(that means improved and brought up to date) along with the half dozen or so brand new Tom Swift novels he has written in his TOM SWIFT LIVES! series. And, soon, I hope to offer direct links to the works of the several other Tom Swift fan fiction authors. Check back! Most recent
update: November 14, 2012 Copyright
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