Victor Appleton

Young Tom Swift purchases a motorcycle and, being the inventor that he is, modifies it to his specifications in time to transport his father's new invention to Albany....

When your dad funds the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, you’re bound to have a bunch of tech at your disposal. So no one bats an eye when Tom and his best friend, Noah, test their new virtual reality drone before class....

Tom gets to take all sorts of cool classes at the Swift Academy of Science and Technology, but robotics may be the one he is most excited for. Their teacher is holding a battling robot tournament, and Tom has to build a machine that will come out on top....

Every year, Swift Academy students go to a nearby summer camp to field-test their inventions. Tom and his friends have been working hard on all their projects, but they’re most thrilled about Noah’s new virtual reality simulation....

Our hero, the young inventor Tom Swift, buys a motorboat at auction that he "soups up", making it one of the fastest boats on Lake Charlupa....

It's another day at the Swift Academy when Tom starts finding little troll-like figures around campus. And he's not the only one. Much to the amusement and curiosity of students, these dolls are appearing all over the school....

Our hero, Tom Swift, takes his airship, the Red Cloud, and his friends above the Arctic Circle in search of gold....

Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout takes us back to gentler times when the bad guys weren't really that bad, didn't carry Uzis, and being an inventor like Thomas Edison was the dream of many young boys....

Volume seven of the Tom Swift series, "Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers" brings our hero, Tom Swift, to Phantom Mountain, somewhere in Colorado....

Volume 10 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero building a new airship and taking it to Africa....

Tom's always tried to play down his pseudo celebrity status at the academy. So, the last thing he wants is a reporter’s son following him around for an article on the school. When this extends to a field trip - an overnight lock-in at Swift Enterprises - Tom couldn’t be less pleased....

As the title implies, our hero Tom Swift invents and designs a monster of the battlefield....

A blaze breaks out in a fireworks factory near Tom Swift's home, but the fire is even closer to his sweetheart, Mary Nestor's house....

Our hero's father is completing an amazing submarine loaded with high-tech gadgetry when Tom discovers that a vessel has sunk containing $300,000 in gold....

Volume nine of the Tom Swift series pits our hero Tom Swift against his arch rival Andy Foger in an airplane race for a prize of $10,000....

Book number 15 of the Tom Swift series finds our hero pursuing smugglers across the Canadian border....

Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera, finds our hero, the young inventor Tom Swift, approached by a moving picture distributor, Mr. Period....

In this adventure Tom, Ned, Mr. Damon and Eradicate travel to South America in search of a tribe of giants....

Tom Swift not only invents, but builds an electric locomotive capable of speeds in excess of 120 mph....

Volume 19 of the Tom Swift series, Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel finds our hero in Peru, South America....