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The Tom Swift Omnibus #8 - A Positronic Book
Hardcover
General Juvenile FictionScience & Nature
ISBN13: 9781604591132
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Nov 8 2007
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From the skies above America to the floor of the Atlantic, Tom Swift's inventions carry him into four fast-moving adventures filled with danger, discovery, and mechanical marvels. Armed with courage, ingenuity, and an unshakable faith in technological progress, the young inventor confronts ruthless rivals, hidden treasure, raging fires, and a desperate race to revolutionize rail travel.
In Tom Swift and His Air Scout, Tom develops an advanced aircraft while aiding the United States government and battling enemies determined to steal his secrets. Tom Swift and His Undersea Search sends him beneath the Atlantic in pursuit of a lost fortune, where greed and deception make the expedition as dangerous as the ocean depths. In Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, a destructive factory blaze leads Tom to create new aerial equipment capable of fighting flames from above. Finally, Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive challenges him to build a train capable of traveling two miles a minute while saboteurs work to destroy both the invention and the railroad that depends upon it. The four novels are consecutive volumes in the original series.
Brimming with airplanes, submarines, experimental machinery, daring rescues, treasure hunting, sabotage, and breathless escapes, The Tom Swift Omnibus #8 captures the exuberant technological imagination that made the series a landmark of early juvenile science fiction. These complete novels offer readers a thrilling journey into an age when every new invention promised to transform the world-and when Tom Swift was always ready to build it.
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