Tom Swift Books for Download
As a child, I was entranced with the adventures of Tom Swift. I read every book that Victor Appleton wrote about his adventures. Gutenberg has the entire collection available for download, which I present for your enjoyment.
Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers
Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon
Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera
Tom Swift and The Electronic Hydrolung
Tom Swift and The Visitor From Planet X
My heart actually skipped…
Nirvana.
Don Chu
January 29, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Don, Those Tom Swift books were the genesis for what I have grown into as an adult. Although my adventures are limited, I attribute some of my acceptance of risk directly from Ton Swift.
I’m glad you noticed this page. Since I put it up, I’ve been waiting to see how long it would be before anyone noticed.
Jeff
masteroftheuniverse
January 29, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I caught the word ‘Swift’ out of the corner of my eye and immediate reaction was: the poetry of Jonathan Swift. Then, ‘Tom’ and I clicked…
Growing up playing with the neighbourhood kids usually involve them making swishing sounds with their colourful light-sabered Vaders and Skywalkers, launching screaming X-wing attacks on 2-foot Death Stars or morphing variable fighter mecha into Battroids to pound the alien-living-daylights out of Zentraedi troopers in Macross/Robotech.
And I’ll be making cardboard models of Tom Swift’s underwater jetmarine, atomic automobile and sonic silentenna. When they found out what I was doing, they laughed and scoffed at the archaic earth-bound technologies.
I’ll stare back evenly and inform them gravely that what they are holding is just plastic and moving parts. And once I’ve fine-tuned my sonic transmitter, I will first shut them up by canceling out their whiny voices with an out-of-phase wave, then turn the juice up and shake that Death Star to bits with a sonic blast.
[Alright, the above is a slight exaggeration of a playground conflict]
…
Tom Swift probably influenced me more than I realize, especially in choices of study – for better or for worse.
[Spent the better part of the last hour downloading gutenberg files (thanks Jeff!), but still can't find the Sonic Boom Trap]
Don Chu
January 29, 2009 at 11:58 pm