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These are the current offerings from Tom Hudson along with brief descriptions.

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ALSO, the first 17 novels in the TOM SWIFT INVENTION SERIES have been turned into collectable hand-bound books featuring
custom art dust jackets, by Scott Dickerson. As with Scott's own books, these are available at a per book price of $40.00, which includes
U.S. domestic postage. Email Tom at
tedwardfox@thehudsons.com for information and to order your copies.

There are two series dealing with the mother (Anne) and father (Damon) of Tom Swift in their own collections of novellas ON THIS PAGE

Tom Hudson also writes character and invention-centric novellas. Go to that page.


Tom Swift and His EnvirOzone Revivicator--Start of a new series based on Scott D's re-imagining of the TS world. My stories float in and around his later tales but are meant to stand alone.

In this one, Tom must devise a way to patch the world's lost ozone layer over Antarctica, save a small African nation from a slow death by dehydration, and fight off mysterious MIG aircraft controlled by an enemy he knows nothing about.

Tom Swift and His QuieTurbine SkyLiner--Number 2 of the new Tom Swift series. Swift Enterprises is tasked with rescuing the airline industry by trying to find a way to both reduce engine noise while creating a more fuel-efficient jet turbine.

Tom finds that what's out there today is just about the best it can be. He must come up with something new, all the while thwarting their enemies who want him to fail... or worse!

 

Tom Swift and the Transcontinental BulleTrain--Number 3 of the new Tom Swift series. The nation's transportation infrastructure is failing. Tom must find a quick way to create the first high-speed, non-stop freight train service. Time is tight, other companies are vying for the business and getting their cooperation is difficult at best.

When a rare explosive is being smuggled into the U.S. and used against Tom, and someone in a high Government place is out to sabotage Tom and ruin the project, he must face the prospect of failure. To make things worse, Tom's father is kidnapped!

 

 

Tom Swift and His Oceanic SubLiminator--Number 4 in the series. When a brand new U.S. nuclear submarine disappears on its sea trials, Tom devises a way to find her and rescue the crew. When he eventually brings her back to the surface the Navy is so impressed theu ask him to help with a very big project:

Find and recover seven known missing nuclear submarines in the oceans of the world.

Most still have fueled reactors and many have nuclear torpedoes. Tom must design a system to hunt down their radiation signals. His efforts are put in peril by a mysterious black sub.

 

Tom Swift and His Cyclonic Eradicator--Number 5 of the new Tom Swift series. With Caribbean hurricanes getting worse, NOAA wants to build a new base in Florida, but when Tom and Bud try to help finish the work begun by another company, they are attacked with torpedoes.

As well as find and stop the spurce of such attacks, Tom wants to "do something about the weather," but what? Thermal bombs come close but are impractical. And dangerous! An old enemy and threats of death may knock Tom off the track, but even that can't stop him. Tom strikes back at his enemies while still trying to figure out what his "weather fix" is going to be.

 

Tom Swift: Galactic Ambassador--Number 6. Tom and his father have been in contact with their space friends for more than two years, but neither side has totally understood the other. Mathematicl symbols might be precise but can't provide Tom with information he really needs.

Now, their friend's Masters are recalling them; their mission to visit and study Earth has failed. What can Tom do to help them? Taking a leap in their translations, he is able to finally get across to them what he must know in order to help them. Will the Masters interfere and ruin it all, or will Tom be able to convince them to let their mission finally happen?

 

Tom Swift and the Paradox Planet--Number 7. When one of our solar system's planets suddenly disappears, Tom and Swift Enterprises are asked to find out what is going on. As the world demands answers, two high-speed probes are dispatched. One simply vanishes and one is flung away. While Tom readies a manned mission, the planet reappears and begins racing into the system and toward the Sun.

The big problem is that Earth is almost directly in its path. Can he find out what's going on before disaster strikes?

Galaxy Ghosts coverTom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts--Number 8. In this TOTALLY NEW & DIFFERENT story (no relation to the Tom Jr. story of the same name), an anomaly, possibly a black hole, is detected close to a nearby star system. With nothing able to get a good view of it, Tom must find a way to determine whether it poses a deadly threat to Earth... or what?

He stumbles on a way to get a probe into and through a small wormhole, but what might happen to him and Bud if they go through for a more complete study? They do, and are faced with an even bigger mystery than the anomaly!

Martian Terravironment coverTom Swift and His Martian TerraVironment--In this 9th adventure, Tom Swift tries to get over the disappointment of losing out on a Moon colony project by thinking even bigger... and farther out.

His plans for a domed Mars colony are nearly thwarted by a series of attacks by a rival industrial company, all the while he also strives to build a revolutionary jet to fulfill a Government request.

In a move that shocks those around him, he hires the son of an old enemy to head the Martian colony.

Tom Swift and His Tectonic Interrupter--Number 10 in the Tom Swift Inventions Series. There is something deadly lurking under most of the ground on which we walk.And, it has apparently woken up.

As Tom Swift is working on a seemingly unrelated project this issue rears its ugly head. And, when an unknown fault line threatens the east coast of the United States, Tom goes into action to develop a new device capable of sealing up the very tectonic weaknesses that could kill millions and even lead to the eruption of the super volcano sitting under a major National Park.

 

 

 

 

Tom Swift 11 Anri-Inferno SupressorTom Swift and the AntiInferno Suppressor--Terrorists have started setting explosives at oil and gasoline storage facilities in Texas and in national forests in this 11th novel of the new series. When Chow comes to Tom with a request to help keep a good friend's son out of danger from the fires he begs Tom to get involved.

With traditional methods either ineffective or taking far too long to deploy or use, Tom must find a new solution. So, when he happens on a notebook of his great-grandfather, the first Tom Swift, he thinks he just may have found the answer. But, how to implement early 20th century tchnology in this modern day?

 

 

Tom Swift 12 possible coverTom Swift and the High Space L-Evator--In the 12th novel in this series, there is mounting political pressure on Swift Enterprises to provide more and more details of all their inventions, and especially their encounters with beings beyond our own planet. Some want control of all of this to ensure that the Earth's safety isn't just in the hands of Tom and Damon Swift, but far more others have a more sinister reason--Power!

As this is happening, Tom decides that the current Outpost in Space is no longer big enough to do everything it might, and sets forth to find a way to create an even larger structure in space. With small cargo rockets no longer a good answer to the "How?" question, he decides to attempt something only previously talked about in science fiction.

 

Tom Swift and the IntraEarth Invaders--Lucky novel 13! From deep under the helium wells below the Atlantic Ocean floor, strange noises, possibly signals of some sort, have begun to be detected. Not just a few meters down, but from miles away. Tom and Bud create an all-new sphere to be lowered down into the darkness so they might find the source.

They get a surprise when they discover that the source is not just dangerous, it is downright malevolent! It appears to be some sort of colony of energy beings. They get an even nastier suprise when they find out why the colony has remained hidden and undisturbed for centuries!

 

Coupe of invisibility coverTom Swift and the Coupe of Invisibility--This is the 14th novel in the series. The Navy needs something that they believe only Tom can provide. They need their RADAR-invisible ships to also be visually invisible. Nothing can ruin invisibility like being able to see something!

When he finds something that will work, and installs in on a small car, it gets stolen. And, not just by normal thieves—foreign terrorists! They want it to use in attacks domestic targets and they begin by practicing on Esterprises. Now, can Tom find a way to overcome his own invention without ruining it as a way to saftguard Navy ships?

Yesterday Machine coverTom Swift and the Yesterday Machine--This is the 15th novel in the series. Something strange is going on in a neighboring solar system. A probe, sent there to observe the same phenomena that nearly killed Tom and Bud two years earlier has sent back video of something that can't be happening!

But, when Tom discovers that it is occuring, and finds out why, he attempts to harness it and develops a machine capable of sending objects through time. But it only works going backwards and when the object gets back to its proper time, it disintegrates! A personal tragedy has him contemplating using the machine on himself, but can he survive?

 

 

Placeholder coverTom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet --#16 in the series. Tom is at the Outpost when he discovers one of the theorhetical outer planets, hundreds of millions of miles beyond Pluto, seems to be in the way of an incoming comet. To his horror, computations show that if it gets hit and breaks apart, the results could be disastrous for Earth.

He must get out there as quickly as possible, but unless he and Doc Simpson can find a way to put a crew into hibernation, the acceleratio pressures will probably kill them.

 

 

Yesterday Machine coverTom Swift and His NanoSurgery Brigade -- When Damon Swift developes a deadly brain tumor, Tom must find a way to get into a place where no doctor tells him is possible. This is not a world of Fantastic Voyage, and so he needs a realistic device and procedure.

But, when it becomes obvious there are fewer than half the necessary people to perform the ultra-delicate operation he needs to find people who do not require specil medical training; time is running out!

Who he finds are the most unlikely group of people imaginable.

 

 

Yesterday Machine coverTom Swift and His ThermoIon Jetpack -- Tom is hired by an eccentric movie director to built a real-life, working jetpack for the man's latest science fiction adventure. Unable to promise something out of the movie serials, the inventor digs into the most recent technology. The suit becomes a reality.

An accident on the set means both a rescue mission as well as training someone else to operate the new device, and then even another person. When the "qualified" stuntmen all fail, making the movie a success falls onto Bud's shoulders as Tom has forbidden the Producer from engaging another person. But, is could this end up being something that could kill the young flyer?

 

Yesterday Machine coverTom Swift and the Atlantean HydroWay -- The 19th book is be an undersea adventure. Tom's transcontinental bullet train has been in operation for several years and is such a success the a daring group of politicians from both the U.S. and Europe hatch a plan to have him construct one deep under the Atlantic Ocean. Cargo and passenger transport will be revolutionized!

But, there are hidden dangers in the deepest areas of the ocean floor along with an unknown enemy who flits about just out of visual or sonar range. Everyone know's they are out there, but have no idea of their plans or who they are.

 

 

Electricity Vampires coverTom Swift and the Electricity Vampires -- Tom encounters an invisible enemy that seems intent on stealing as much electricity as possible. Why and how can he locate them in order to put an end to their plans… whatever those might be?

He first become aware of the problem when a solar powerd sailboat he is testing is drained of all power by what isn't quite like a lightning bolt. Then, power station after station are similarly attacked and all available power taken away and into the sky.

Is there a way to make them visible or to track them as they move to their next target? And, what is their ultimate goal?

 

This is the historic book 20 in the series

Solar Chaser cover

Tom Swift and the Solar Chaser -- The 21st book is an air adventure. The organizers of the various X-Prize contests have a new one: Fly non-stop around the world using solar power and all in under 36 hours! Tom has flown around the world using electricity before, only he had a nuclear power pod providing everything needed.

This time, he must devise a way to not just make enough power for flying at more that 500 knots per hour by day, he must store enough extra to fly that fast at night. And, develop an aircraft capable of flying with all that weight!

Making things more difficult is an enemy determined to undermine his efforts and even to kill him.

 

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Tom Swift and His SeaSpace HydroFarm -- Book 22 has Tom being hired by the British government to create growing space for several Caribbean islands who are in danger of being cut off by their food supliers in South America. To make this mercy mission work, he must figure out how to build more growing space on inslands already at maximum capacity, transport foods to where they are required, and even to figure out how to maximize the space he might make.

Infighting among the islands, in the international community and even in our own Government, make things difficult for the inventor and he nearly gives up. But, he has made promises he intends to keep and finally hits on an inventive way to accomplish everything.

If, that is, he can manage to do the nearly impossible in too short a time and move something unmoveable in the process!

 

Matrian Moon Replacement coverTom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-placement -- Book 23 has Tom heading for Mars where one of the two small moons appears to be getting closer and closer. What was supposed to take millions of years may take less than one before it crashes into the surface, and nobody knows what might happen to the colony up there.

A close study of the lunar object shows that it took a sharp collision in the back, probably when the moon was brehind Mars, and is picking up speed. But why? it has been thought for many years it is a clompacted collection of rocks and small meteors, but a new discover confounds the inventor and might just be the cause of why traditional methods have failed to put Phobos back where it ought to be.

 

 

MArtian Invulnosuot coverTom Swift and the Venusian InvulnoSuit -- Book 24 will see the United States launching a very expensive probe to suudy the surface of Venus over a full year onluyto see it tople over within minutes of reachig the scorching surface. It cannot perform its experiments and checks on its side, and so Tom is asked to mount a mission to get it back upright.

It ought to be simple enough, but when he sends and unmanned Attractatron "Mule" up, and get the probe "back on its feet," it is temporary as the thing falls over again and the Mule is destroyed by the heat.

Is there some way a manned mission might fix thing? And, where on Earth can Tom test his new survivial suit.

NEW as of January 2019

HoverCity coverTom Swift and the HoverCity -- The 25th book in the series. With land in and around major cities running short, and more and more people wanting to live there, and in exclusive residential areasthe Governor of Newark, New Jersey comes to Tom with a wild idea. Can the ionventor create a hovering city large enough to accommodate at least one-thousand residents and park it over some unbuildable land?

Further, can Tom find a way to safeguard the flying town from wily criminals and other snoops who would think nothing of buzzing theis flying phenomina and likely to to the detriment of the inhabitants?

Those are the least of his worries as someone he had believe is out of his life forever comes back, making things very difficult.

 

 

SubNeptunium Circumnavigation coverTom Swift and the SubNeptunian Circumnavigation -- After two failed attempts by NASA to send robotic submarines to study the oceans of the 8th planet, Tom decides he can do it better and creates a new type of spacegoing ship that can also act as a submarine.

When he arrives in orbit he is alarmed to find the level of storms might keep his crew from every getting event ot he liquid surface much less explore deep below that.

With at least one sponsoring nation insistent on him bringing back wha they think are pricelsee Neptunian gems, Tom finds that this is a dangerous and tenious mission that might forever trap him under miles of liquid methane!

 

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Tom Swift and the Marianas AquaNoids -- Tom Swift lost something valuable when testing a miniature version of his space submarine, Yamato II, and he lost it deep intothe Marianas Trench. Now, he and a cew set out to retrieve it.

Things do not go easily as he discovers a lost Chinese submarine, is being actively chased by a man who overhead a conversation and believes he can find great riches, and one HUGE surprise.

This marks the 27th book in this series!

 

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Tom Swift and the Starless Planet -- Book 28. Tom Swift must go find out if anything can be done about a wandering planet coming into the solar system that various observatories say may well leave the Earth alone… only to possibly crash into Jupiter on the way back out!

He reinstitutes an old technology once used on a comet that would have hit the Earth, and must get it ready, delivered, and running in just a couple months. Time is not on the inventor's side. And then there is the sabotage…

But, what he finds after setting off his planet-saving invention is more startling than the planet itself!

 

Cover art for book 29Tom Swift and His HyperSonic Spaceplane -- An older technology from his teen years that Tom never managed to see to fruition comes to the inventor's mind and he set out to make it possible. At the same time, he decides it must pay for itself by becoming a viable product for Swift Enterprises.

This might be easier said than done when at least two attacks from two different enemies are made, one right on the grounds of the company!

This is the 29th book in this series.

 

 

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Tom Swift and the Space Friends Return -- Book 30. The Space Friends left our solar system a few years earlier and have almost never communicated… until now. They send a cryptic message announcing they are coming back, but cannot or will not give any information to Tom. It all is a little too ominous.

Once they do arrive, Tom must confront them over their true intentions and lack of any coperation. And, it isn't looking as if they can do anything to help. The only positive is the main group of aliens are the same ones who Tom helped get to Earth, but they truly seem worried.

They, and everyone else ought to be!

 

New: March 2020

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Tom Swift and His Antimatter PowerGrid -- Book 31. The Space Friends are gone forever spo Tom needs something to occupy his time. A thought to come up with a revolutionary power source, one that can meet event he stricktest no-nuclear restrictions, comes to mind.

With Canada even balking at paying for something he installed years earlier, and screaming about "No Nucular," he must devise something that is both efficient and effective, and does not feauture nuclear fusion.

Can his inventive mind come up with something absolutely safe and able to please stubborn politians? He hopes so.

Newer: August 2020

 

Tom Swift book 32 coverTom Swift and the Chaos World -- Book 32. Tom and his crew on the Challenger encounter a strange and powerful gravity well where there should be nothing!

When he sends out a special probe to check it out, that device is crushed by the extreme pressures of the gravity he cannot identify. New probes meet similar fates until he builds one that is too fast to be captured.

And that leads him to find he must go see what this is. But, what he finds is anything like anything he has ever seen.

 

Newest: January 2021

And… at least three more to come in 2021 - 2022!

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The TOM SWIFT Lunar Colony Saga

Space Battering Ram coverTom Swift and the Space Battering Ram

The first dual-author Tom Swift novel. Fan authors Leo Levesque and Tom Hudson combined their talents to make for an action-packed novel.

The story centers on a rogue comet, an Enterprises employee's kidnaped family, megalomaniacs, a fortress/castle that can't be seen, a space colony, asteroids, deadly space debris, and an intriguing new invention that saves the day!

 

Cometary Reclaimation coverTom Swift and the Cometary Reclamation

The second dual-author Tom Swift novel in what is becoming The Lunar Colony Trilogy. While Tom Swift is trying to find a way to bring water to the state of Caclifornia--trying to keep people, animals and crops alive--his former head of Security, Harlan Ames, is on a search to find out what happened to the former Empress from the lunar colony.

Paths and tasks intersect when the lunar colony begins to suffer a similar water shortage. Can Tom lasso a wet comet, find a way to purify the water and get it to the Moon and the Earth in time?

Lunar Volcano coverTom Swift and the Lunar Volcano

Third volume in this dual author saga. With the death of the Empress all that should be left to do on the Moon is get it all running as a self-sufficient city-state. But when one final act of revenge on the part of the Empress is discovered, and at the same time deep rumblings and even lunarquakes sstart to happen, Tom Swift must go back and investigate.

What he discovers is both shocking and could spell the end of the colony—and the thousands of colonists who now want to remain rather than go back to Earth, even if Tom could figure a way to evacuate them all

 

 

Tom Swift and the Killing Moon coverTom Swift and the Killing Moon

The fourth volume in this dual author saga. Things have settled down at Corderilla City, and plans are moving ahead to create the planned lunar resort with Tom Swift's assistance. But, things are not going smoothly. First one, then two, and then more murders happen in the colony.

Harlan Ames heads back up to invenstgate but not before attending to a separate search for information and some missing truths in his life and that of the now dead Empress.

It soon becomes obvious to him that these murders are just practices; But, who is the real target and can he stop it before it is too late?

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The following four novels are reimagined version of the first four Tom Swift novels published in 1910 and were
adapted in honor of the 100th anniversary and the Tom Swift 100th Year Convention in 2011. The fifth
book listed is a new Tom Sr. novella published in late 2013.


Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle--Start of a new series based on Scott D's re-imagining of the TS world. My stories float in and around his later tales but are meant to stand alone. In this one, Tom must devise a way to patch the world's lost ozone layedr over Antarctica, save a small African nation from a slow death by dehydration, and fight off mysterious MIG aircraft.

 

Tom Swift and His Motorboat--Number 2 of the new Tom Swift series. Swift Enterprises is tasked with rescuing the airline industry by trying to find a way to both reduce engine noise while creating a more fuel-efficient jet turbine. Tom finds that what's out there today is just about the best it can be. He must come up with something new, ll the while thwarting their enemies who want him to fail... or worse!

 

Tom Swift and His Airship--Number 3 of the new Tom Swift series. The nation's transportation infrastructure is failing. Tom must find a quick way to create the first high-speed, non-stop freight train service. Time is tight, other companies are vying for the business and getting their cooperation is difficult at best, a rare explosive is being smuggled into the U.S. and used against Tom, and someone in a high Government place is out to sabotage Tom and ruin the project. To make things worse, Tom's father is kidnapped!

 

 

 

Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat--Number 4 in the series. When a new U.S. nuclear submarine disappears on sea trials, Tom figures a way to find her and rescue the crew. When he eventually brings her back to the surface the Navy asks him to help with a very big project. Find and recover seven known missing nuclear submarines in the oceans of the world. Most have reactors and many have nuclear torpedoes. Tom must design a system to hunt down their radiation signals. His efforts are put in peril by a mysterious black sub.

 

Tom Senior Short Story coverTom Swift and His Aerial Firetruck -- With great dismay, Tom Swift watches as the historic Shopton Hotel burns down. It is too tall for the small hand-pumped firetruck to get water to the burning top floors. And, shile he works to prove that the fire was started under very mysterious circumstances, he races to find a way to create a sure-fire way to douse flames on even the tallest buildings and skyscrapers.

This novella is the precursor story for the 11th novel in the
Tom Swift Invention Series, Tom Swift and His AntiInferno Suppressor.

 

   
 
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