Tom Swift's A Fourth Pocket Book of Inventions: Five Tom and One Damon Swift Invention

by Thomas Hudson, T Edward Fox

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500148638
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/09/2014
Series:	Tom Swift Invention Shorts , #4
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

T. Edward Fox is the author of nearly two dozen short and novella-length stories dealing with both the individual characters in the world of Tom Swift as well as over two-dozen tales of the famous young inventor's inventions. In early 2014 he completed his 14th Tom Swift novel and has 3 more coming in the next year or so.

He is, like a lot of authors of series like Tom Swift, is a pseudonym. Unlike a lot of series, he is a he and is a single person. Well, he is married, but is just one person. See?

Mr. Fox was co-author of an enormously popular computer book back in the late 1990s-which is nowhere close to being a best-selling author along the lines of a Clarke, Asimov or that ilk. He has the identical name of a famous computer expert and has been photographed, quoted, interviewed for national television, and provided a glass of wine, all by mistake.

And you should have seen the newsperson's face when she discovered she'd just spent 30-minutes with the wrong guy!

He has begun a series called The Speedboat Sisters, about a set of triplet girls (all 18) and their love of racing around in their brother's speed boat. It is written in the style of books for young teens from post WW II.