OT Tom Swift

[Kevin Handy]

Zane H. Healy wrote:

>>
>> Tom Swift? Never heard of 'em... It's either way before my time, or 
>> one of
>> the many things that never managed to get across the Atlantic...
>
>
> It probably never made it across the Atlantic.
>
> First series 1910-1930's
> Second Series 1950's through 1960's (still being sold in very early 80's)
> Third Series 1980's
> Fourth Series (not sure when this came out or if it's still going).
>
> The best two series are the first two, and the third is set in the 
> future with really no tie in.  The Tom Swift of the first series, is 
> the father in the second.  Basically it's a series of "Scientific" 
> adventure books for boys.  I managed to complete my set of the second 
> series while I was still in school, and I'm now about two-thirds, to 
> three-quarters of the way through finishing a set of the First series.
>
> Both of the first two series would probably be considered to be very 
> dated, and downright humorous by todays youth.  Hopefully when the 
> time comes, my kids will read my collections of Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, 
> Nancy Drew, Happy Hollisters, and others.  I've got over a full sized 
> bookcase of the genre packed away from when I was a kid (including two 
> different versions of many of the original Hardy Boys stories).
>
>
For what it's worth, Project Gutenberg has a selection of
Tom Swift books if anyone wants to read them.

Go To

   http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

And enter "Tom Swift" in the title search bar.

Most are available in several formats (HTML, Text, etc...)

there's probably a list of them somewhere in chronological
order, but that is left as an exercise for the student...