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These are the current offerings from Tom Hudson along with brief descriptions.
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This page is devoted to the two other series that feature Tom's mother and father from my TOM SWIFT Invention Series, those being Damon and Anne Swift.
Each of the have at least three trilogies of novellas with Anne Swift all also having a "biography" novel.
Tom Hudson also writes character and invention-centric novellas. Go to that page.
THE ANNE SWIFT STORIES
The following volumes are the current releases in the ANNE SWIFT: MOLECULAR DETECTIVE series.
The first three have been collected in a single book and may be purchased at Amazon.com
Anne Swift and the Microbial Murder Mess--Anne Swift is called upon to put her training as a microbiologist to work for the FBI in Shopton. A biological soup has been discovered in a series of abandoned barrels buried under Shopton Middle School.
With no identifiers available, Anne must separate all of the components down to their molecular level. To complicate things, Anne has never revealed to her family about her involvement in investigating such crimes. Her only Enterprises ally is Harlan Ames who frequently acts as her go-between.
This story appears in volume 1
Anne Swift and the Nasty Nuclear Nodules--In her adventure number 2, Anne Swift is called upon to put her training as a microbiologist to work for the FBI again. A local construction company has been digging for the foundation of a new City Hall when they come upon a strange blue orb. To compound her troubles, the man who found it suddenly turns up dead and partially dissolved.
It proves to be mildly radioactive. Nobody knows where it might have come from, but a mystery foe of her husband begins to spread rumors that it it nuclear waste coming from Swift Enterprises.
This story appears in volume 1
Anne Swift and the Scary Scroungy Scrofula--In this 3rd adventure, Anne Swift is presented with a problem. A strange homeless man has come to Shopton, apparently healthy, but everyone he comes into contact with begins to suffer from horrible respiratory problems.
A local lab has ruled out tuberculosis and other medical problems. When the man is taken into custody, even his jailers begin to get sick. Nobody wants to let him go and infect the population at large, but they also don't want to endanger anyone working in or around the jail.
This story appears in volume 1
Anne Swift and the Deadly Dino DNA--Number 4 in the series. A cache of dinosaur bones have been found near the Shopton Yacht Club. Great find, but people who are cleaning them up start to get sick... and die. Anne and her team must first find out what is causing it all, and then come up with a solution to a 200-million-year-old mystery.
This story appears in volume 2
Anne Swift and the Malicious Meteor Mayhem--Anne Swift story 5: When pieces of a meteor that was supposed to miss Earth actually hit, it becomes a race against time to secure the locations before people find them--but it is too late when bits go missing and people start to die! Anne must find out why and how to save others while the FBI searches for the missing bits.
This story appears in volume 2
Anne Swift and the Incendiary Insect Infestation--Anne Swift story 6: When people and animals die during an unseen attack in the small upstate New York town of Bombay, Anne is dragged way from a family vacation to investigate. She is assigned a young woman from the military as an assistant in a case that has more secrets than answers. Things go terribly wrong when she finds out who is behind the incident, and nearly gets killed in the process!
This story appears in volume 2
Anne Swift and the Alien Anticoagulant Anomaly--Anne Swift story 7: After being away from her secret job for nearly one year, Anne grudgingly goes back to help with one final case. People, and goats, in a town in Canada have been dying. Each one bled to death standing up, and each one has mysterious slashes on their bodies. Strange lights and even aliens have been reported by the locals. Anne heads up to see why someone has been cleaning and redressing the bodies and discovers a lot more than she planned for.
This story appears in volume 3
It should be noted that she actually became involved in one final case a few months after this was first made public.
This story appears in volume 3
Anne Swift and the Pernicious Parasitic Pandemic--Anne Swift story 9: After having retired and her formerly secret identity made public, and her expolits lauded in the press, Anne finds herself both restless and wondering if she has done the right thing. A chance to take a temporary teaching position in California to train the next generation of FBI scientists is just the thing. But, when her students begin to drop, she needs to don her scientist cap and dig in to find the problem and the solution.
This story appears in volume 3
Anne Swift: Making the Molecular Bilogical Detective.New for May 2015, a full-length Anne Swift novel has been posted. This story is both a biography--detailing her young life, education, meeting of Damon Swift and how she got to be who she is--plus it features her very first assignment for the FBI.
This sees Anne grow from a thirteed year old suddenly finding herself forced into a private all-girl school where she discovers her love of science. It takes her through high school, college and graduate school at which point she marries Damon Swift, moves to Florida to be with him as he works of the Space Shuttle II program before they move back to his home town of Shopton.
And, the reader gets to see the process that took Anne from a housewife to becomming a secret scientist for the FBI.
The Collected Medical Mysteries -- This collection contains the first 8 stories plus Anne's interview as well as the excerpted adventure, her very first, from her biography.
It also features a special written-for-this-book short story, Anne's Swiftest Case.
It is available as a book for purchase from Lulu at:
Anne-swift-the-collected-medical-mysteries/paperback/product-22176576.html
The Wonderful Damon in Oz
Sometimes Damon gets bored with his Government projects and running Swift Enterprises, so when the opportunity to create three unique inventions for Australia come along, he jumps at the chance. the first two novellas are about a pair of inventions he creates for teh Royal Australian Navy, a twoman submarine with a very noticeable difference, and a flock of incredible flying drones to patrol the skies between the continent and southeast Asia.
Then, when the mother of his new friend from the Navy retires and takes over a failiing but vital delivery service, can he help create something to not just save her money, but replace nearly evrything she currently uses?
Damon Swift Invents…
The second set of novellas about Damon Swift inventions starting with an updated and expance version of his first invention adventure, the one that saved Swift Enterprises! He next is invited to come to Scandanavia for a meeting where it is revealed that an expedition recently found a cache of deadly weapons near the North Pole, and the European governments are afraid they are being staged for an attack by an unfriendly Asian nation. What can Damon do to keep a lookout on future developments? Next, an illegal cargo of plague virus is on a plane that crashes in western Brazil, close to an ellusive tribe who nobody ever sees. Is ther something Damon can build to innoculate the people who don't want to be found and wouldn't stand still if they were?
This book includes a short story bonus: The Scuttle-by-Wire Rat.
The Duly Deputized Rhino and other stories
from the world of Damon Swift
Third volume in this series.
Poachers from a nearby unfriendly nation are killing protected rhinos in a poor country. A friend, nearly killed by the poachers, begs Damon to do something to help.
Then, when the French government sends Damon a mock-up of a space wehhl he finds far too many faults but cannot convince them to fix them in the design. They only want him to build small one-man construction craft for use in space. But, there is something fishy going on…
And, it is back to Australia when a wealthy man want to build a real life Tirassic Park complete with about a hundred life-like robotoc dinosaurs. He can;t get anyone to built his pet project, pterodactlys. Actual flying ones. Damon thinks it is possible but the man wants to cut corners on safety and that just won't do!
The fourth volume in this series.
India is trying to launch a space station but their rockets keep exploding. Damon wants to help, but they seem to be stubbornly determined to do it on their own.
Then, he is back to Australia in an adventure that sees him trying to help with a terrible pest problem--including a million wild camels--but nobody is enthusiastic about getting "Yank help" yet again. Then, someone trise to kill him!
Whn his old employer, NASA, asks Entertprises to be part of a new probe meand to land on Jupiter, Damon says yes, but as the other companies need to back out his participation might get the company in trouble with a Congressional mandate.
Finally, there is a short bonus story to round things out.
Damon Swift--a Pair of Rather Long Short Stories
Two novellas in one book. First up, Damon is invited to New Zealand to try to help them overcome the impending loss of two thirds of their ferry service but runs up against an old foe while making a new one. Not helping is a rather weak politial ally, the Governor of the two-island nation.
Next, while trhing to assist the two companies that have been struggling with "hyperloop" runs on the east and west coasts, Damon finds he must test his possible solution but cannot get any assistance or even time on the existing tracks. So, he decides to head for the one place he can find airless conditions along with stable ground… the Moon. However, things go awry which leads him to a discovery that sends chills down everyone's spines!
Damon Swift in Flight
Many know of the Pigeon, Damon Swift's first 2-seat airplane, and most have read about the upgrade, the Pigeon Special, but this serien not just contains thost develoment stories, it has one tale about a brand new aircraft, one based loosly on an old and mostly abandoned Russian design, he developes to be used agaist what seem to be marauding Russian gunboars just off the coast of Norway.
But, is everything as it seems?
Damon Swift and the CosmoSoar:
a novel
While the story of Tom Swift and his Rocket Ship is known, little has been written about how Damon Swift came to also build a privately-funded rocket, lease and build Fearing Island, and work toward winning an X-Prize for his unique rocket design.
This novel is the back story of all that plus a lot more about Damon, the early years at Swift Enterprises, his budding friendship with a U.S. Senator, foiling an invasion by the Marines, and everything leading up to the day before his launch.
Damon Swift and the Citadel: a novelThe second Damon novel. This time we find out how he got permissions to build a private nuclear power research facility even though the bureaucrats in Washington DC seemed out to keep ot from every becoming a reality.
The story covers everything that went into making his vision come true including his first ever encounter with a certain Senator from New Mexico who would become a pivotal friend for this and many future endeavors.
Damon Swift's Greatest Enterprise: a novel
This third Damon Swift novel includes the story of the developement of Swift Enterprises from Damon's visions through everything it takes to see that dream come true.
Damon Swift and the Citadel 2: a Bud & Chow Story
The second Citadel story, this time a novella. As damon works to get the permissions to expand his nuclear facility from one small reactor, his son, Tom, comes out west brining his small HyperPlane, an aircraft he hopes to one day power using a tiny reactor.
Bur, with only a turbofan for power he test flies it around New Mexico encountering a strange and super-fast all-white jet that seems to want to knock him from the sky.
On this trip we find oit the backstories on how he first met Bud Barclay, and then the two of them were rescued by Chow Winkler.
characters and some of Tom Swift's less mainstream inventions. These all appear on this second page.