List of Tom Swift books

All 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 II), while the character was created by Edward Stratemeyer for his book packaging house, the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Counterparts to the Tom Swift character and series are later Stratemeyer creations, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, the former of which Swift crossed over with in the fourth series.

The original Tom Swift series

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The first novels to feature the Tom Swift character were released in 1910 by Grosset & Dunlap. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, and written by several ghostwriters in its duration.

The first 38 titles were published by Grosset & Dunlap, with two ghostwriters: Howard Garis wrote the first thirty-five titles, while Harriet Adams wrote the final three. Two more titles were published as a part of the Big Little Book series (by rival Western Publishing), and were ghostwritten by Thomas Moyston Mitchell.[1]

Title, authorship, publication date, and source text (when available)
# Title Public domain source Pub. Ghostwriter
1 Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle
Or, Fun and Adventure on the Road
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
1910 Howard Garis
2 Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
3 Tom Swift and His Airship
Or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
4 Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
5 Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
Or, The Speediest Car on the Road
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
6 Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
1911
7 Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
Or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
8 Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
Or, The Wreck of the Airship
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
9 Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
Or, The Quickest Flight on Record
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
10 Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
Or, Daring Adventures on Elephant Island
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
11 Tom Swift in the City of Gold
Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
1912
12 Tom Swift and His Air Glider
Or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
13 Tom Swift in Captivity
Or, A Daring Escape by Airship
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
14 Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera
Or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
15 Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Or, On the Border for Uncle Sam
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
16 Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon
Or, The Longest Shots on Record
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
1913
17 Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone
Or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune
Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
1914
18 Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
Or, The Naval Terror of the Seas
Project Gutenberg 1915
19 Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
Or, The Hidden City of the Andes
Project Gutenberg 1916
20 Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold
Project Gutenberg 1917
21 Tom Swift and His War Tank
Or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam
Project Gutenberg 1918
22 Tom Swift and His Air Scout
Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky
Project Gutenberg 1919
23 Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
Or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic
Project Gutenberg 1920
24 Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters
Or, Battling with Flames in the Air
Project Gutenberg 1921
25 Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive
Or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
Project Gutenberg 1922
26 Tom Swift and His Flying Boat
Or, Castaways of the Giant Iceberg
Project Gutenberg
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1923
27 Tom Swift and His Great Oil Gusher
Or, The Treasure of Goby Farm
Project Gutenberg
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1924
28 Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets
Or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions
Project Gutenberg
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1925
29 Tom Swift and His Airline Express
Or, From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight
Project Gutenberg
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1926
30 Tom Swift Circling the Globe
Or, The Daring Cruise of the Air Monarch
Project Gutenberg
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1927
31 Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures
Or, The Greatest Invention on Record
Project Gutenberg
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1928
32 Tom Swift and His House on Wheels
Or, A Trip around the Mountain of Mystery
1929
33 Tom Swift and His Big Dirigible
Or, Adventures Over the Forest of Fire
1930
34 Tom Swift and His Sky Train
Or, Overland Through the Clouds
1931
35 Tom Swift and His Giant Magnet
Or, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine
1932
36 Tom Swift and His Television Detector
Or, Trailing the Secret Plotters
1933 Harriet Adams
37 Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport
Or, Foiling the Haargolanders
1934
38 Tom Swift and His Planet Stone
Or, Discovering the Secret of Another World
1935
39 Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope[note 1] Wikisource
Project Gutenberg
1939 Thomas Moyston Mitchell
40 Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer[note 1] 1941

Tom Swift Jr.

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Officially titled Tom Swift Jr., the second series was published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1954 to 1971.[2] Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X and Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung are in the public domain, and are available as downloadable texts from Project Gutenberg.

Titles, authorship, and publication dates
# Title Pub. Ghostwriter
1 Tom Swift and His Flying Lab 1954 William Dougherty
2 Tom Swift and His Jetmarine John Almquist
3 Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship
4 Tom Swift and His Giant Robot Richard Sklar
5 Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster James Duncan Lawrence
6 Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space 1955
7 Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter 1956
8 Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire Thomas Mulvey
9 Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite James Duncan Lawrence
10 Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane 1957
11 Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome 1958
12 Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon
13 Tom Swift and His Space Solartron
14 Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope 1959
15 Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector 1960
16 Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts
17 Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X 1961
18 Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
19 Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar 1962
20 Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober
21 Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates 1963
22 Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway
23 Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker 1964
24 Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector
25 Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere 1965
26 Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap
27 Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron 1966
28 Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet
29 Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid 1967
30 Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter 1968 Thomas Mulvey
31 Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule 1969 Richard McKenna
32 Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express 1970
33 Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts 1971 Vincent Buranelli

Tom Swift (1981)

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The third Tom Swift series was launched following the Stratemeyer Syndicate moving publishers to Simon & Schuster. The series was published under the publisher's Wanderer imprint (as were the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books at the time), and lasted from 1981 to 1984. This series took place in outer space and featured fan-favorite character Aristotle the Robot, who was introduced in the second volume.

The series was cancelled in 1984, when Simon & Schuster bought the Syndicate. Two titles — Chaos on Earth and The Micro World — were written by Neal Barrett, but not published before its cancellation. The manuscripts of the two titles are in the Syndicate's archives, which are held at the New York Public Library.

Titles, authorship, and publication dates
# Title Pub. Ghostwriter
1 The City in the Stars 1981 William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono[3]
2 Terror on the Moons of Jupiter
3 The Alien Probe
4 The War in Outer Space
5 The Astral Fortress
6 The Rescue Mission 1982
7 Ark Two Neal Barrett, Jr.
8 Crater of Mystery 1983 Mike McQuay[4]
9 Gateway to Doom Bob Vardeman
10 The Invisible Force Neal Barrett, Jr.
11 Planet of Nightmares 1984 Mike MacQuay

Tom Swift (1991)

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The fourth Tom Swift series was created as a counterpart to The Nancy Drew Files and The Hardy Boys Casefiles spin-offs, and was published by Archway from 1991 to 1993. The series had two books which crossed over with the Hardy Boys, a sub-series titled Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra ThrillersTime Bomb (August 1992) and The Alien Factor (June 1993).

Titles, authorship, and publication dates
# Title Pub. Ghostwriter
1 The Black Dragon April 1991 Bill McCay
2 The Negative Zone
3 Cyborg Kickboxer June 1991 Steven Grant
4 The DNA Disaster August 1991 F. Gwynplaine MacIntrye
5 Monster Machine October 1991 Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald
6 Aquatech Warriors December 1991
7 Moonstalker February 1992
8 The Microbots April 1992 Robert E. Vardeman
9 Fire Biker June 1992
10 Mind Games October 1992 Bruce Holland Rogers
11 Mutant Beach December 1992 Robert E. Vardeman
12 Death Quake February 1993 Bridget McKenna
13 Quantum Force April 1993

Tom Swift: Young Inventor

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The fifth series to feature the Tom Swift character was published by Aladdin from 2006 to 2007. The series served as a counterpart to Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers series, both of which were reboots of their original series. Like its counterparts, a big part of the reboot was that titles were now written in first-person narration.

The series was cancelled in late 2007, while its counterparts were rebooted into trilogies. A seventh title, Extraterrestrial Highway, was planned for publication in February 2008; however, it ultimately remained unpublished. There are ISBN's registered for volumes 8-11 in this series, but the titles and status of the manuscripts are unknown.

Titles and publication dates
# Title Released Ghostwriter
1 Into the Abyss June 1, 2006 (2006-06-01)
2 The Robot Olympics Greg Cox[5]
3 The Space Hotel October 10, 2006 (2006-10-10)
4 Rocket Racers January 23, 2007 (2007-01-23)
5 On Top of the World May 22, 2007 (2007-05-22)
6 Under the Radar October 2, 2007 (2007-10-02)

Tom Swift Inventors' Academy

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The sixth series to feature the Tom Swift character was launched by Aladdin in July 2019. It features a young Swift, age is around thirteen, who attends a school for young inventors and scientists. This series, a counterpart to the Hardy Boys Adventures and Nancy Drew Diaries series, is told in first-person narration, and published in eBook, paperback, and hardcover. Audiobooks of the first five titles released on CD narrated by Timothy Andres Pabon. A boxed set of the first four paperbacks was also published using cover art from the first book.

Titles and publication dates
# Title Released Ghostwriter
1 The Drone Pursuit July 2, 2019 (2019-07-02) Michael Anthony Steele
2 The Sonic Breach Michael Anthony Steele
3 Restricted Access October 22, 2019 (2019-10-22) Michael Anthony Steele
4 The Virtual Vandal March 17, 2020 (2020-03-17) Michael Anthony Steele
5 The Spybot Invasion July 28, 2020 (2020-07-28) Michael Anthony Steele
6 Augmented Reality March 16, 2021 (2021-03-16) Michael Anthony Steele
7 The Blurred Blogger June 15, 2021 (2021-06-15) Michael Anthony Steele
8 Depth Perception March 15, 2022 (2022-03-15) Michael Anthony Steele

References

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  1. ^ "The Complete Tom Swift Sr. Home Page". Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  2. ^ "The Complete Tom Swift Jr. Home Page". Retrieved 28 April 2011.
  3. ^ "News archive". Locus. November 1997. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
  4. ^ "SFE: McQuay, Mike".
  5. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Greg Cox". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved January 26, 2021.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b This title was published by Better Little Book.