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

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The first 17 novels in the TOM SWIFT INVENTION SERIES have been turned into collectable hand-bound books featuring
custom art and dust jackets by Scott Dickerson.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 also 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 apart from those.

In this one, Tom finds himself tasked on three fronts. First he must devise a way to patch the world's lost ozone layer over Antarctica, all the while saving a small African nation from a slow death by dehydration, and fighting off mysterious MIG and Mirage aircraft controlled by an enemy he knows nothing about.

 

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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, but finds it necessary to thwart 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 and the President has declared he will develop the solution. Tom must find a quick way to create the first high-speed, non-stop freight train service from the West to the East Coast. 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 and very secret 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 and missiles on board. 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 finding and stopping the source of such attacks, Tom wants to "do something about the bad 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. Mathematical symbols might be precise for some things 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. And, it is beckoning them to come closer!

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.

With an entire planet from which to chose he must find just the right spot, then he must provide for their air, water and food requirements of his colonists. They will need to be self-sufficient to survive.

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.

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 the young inventor 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 to various governments. 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 U.S. 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 that thing!

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 Enterprises. 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. He finds 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. An alternative must be found before it is too late.

 

 

Yesterday Machine coverTom Swift and His NanoSurgery Brigade -- When Damon Swift developes a deadly brain tumor, Tom must devise 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 far fewer than the necessary number of people to perform the ultra-delicate operation he needs to find people who do not require special medical training; time is running out!

Who he finds are the most unlikely group of people imaginable and they set the medical world on its ear.

 

 

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 with a retro look out of the movie serials, the inventor digs into the most recent technology.

An accident on the set means both a rescue mission as well as training someone else to operate the new device, and that falls onto Bud's shoulders as Tom is forbidded to engage is something that could kill him.

 

Yesterday Machine coverTom Swift and the Atlantean HydroWay -- The 19th book is an undersea adventure. Tom's transcontinental bullet train has beenin operation for several years and is such a success the a daring group of business people from both Europe hatch a plan to have him construct one just like it 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.

 

 

Electrical VAmpires coverTom Swift and the Electricity Vampires -- The 20th book will be an adventure pitting Tom and Bud against invisible terrorists who have developed a way to sneak over the U.S., undetected, and drain the power from major electrical generating facilities.

When the Government requests his help, Tom is stumped for an idea of what to do, but a freak chance gives him the first ever glimpse of their vessel. He soon realizes they must find sources of power every few days or risk detection and that send him down a path to uncover them and their vampire ship.

 

 

Solar Chaser coverTom Swift and the Solar Chaser -- There are times Tom Swift takes on harrowing adventures, and then there are the times he takes on a project purely for the pleasure of doing something fun. This 21st book sees Tom and Bud trying to do the seemingly inpossible, travel around the world using solar power only, and all in under 36 hours!

They enter a new X-Prize contest, but the strict stipulations, especially time, seem destined to doom any attempts. Whoever heard of flying an all-electric jet at over five-hundred knots? How do you charge enough batteries to make it through the night at that speed. And, how do you get into the air carrying all those batteries?

And, when a new enemy shows its head and tries to injur or kill Tom or Bud, the tension increases almost to the breaking point.

 

 

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SeaSpace HydroFarm coverTom Swift and His SeaSpace HydroFarm --

When the food plight of a Caribbean nation is made known to Tom he finds himself being hired to come up with a solution for not just one island nation, but four. And then, if this all works out, he might be hired to help other struggling, food-poor countries around the world.

The main issue is that of land. There is little or no additional to be found on the islands, so he must devise a way to make more. Somewhere and somehow.

It isn't easy but once he finds what he believes to be the solution, someone else gets other ideas and tries to ruin it all.

 

Solar Chaser coverTom Swift and the Martian Moon Re-placement -- The Red Planet has two little moons that harmlessly orbit at fairly low distances from the planet's surface, but they've been up there a long time and have been behaving.

Until they stop playing nice and the smaller one. Phobos, starts a slow but steady descent toward Mars. With a thriving colony up there faced with increasing seismic events and the eventual crash of the Manhattan-sized chunk of rock, Tom has precious little time to come up with a way to either remove Phobos, or get it back into its correct position.

And, if it isn't done absolutely right, the balance between Phoboa and Diemos could cause even larger problems!

But, Tom must also find out why all this is happening or his work might be for nothing.

 

 

Invulnosuit coverTom Swift and the Venusian InvulnoSuit -- When a costly probe is sent to Venus and almost immediately falls over on its side, the call goes out to Tom Swift to see if he can mount a rescue mission. His first attempt, sending one of his Attractatron "mules" up to pull the probe upright works briefly, but it soon topples over again. With the Mule badly damaged from the extreme heat, Tom must find another way.

The only thing that seems feasible is to go there himself, but he must find a way to protect whatever goes down to do the rescue. This leads him back to a famliar place, one he believes is the only place on Earth to test his new specialy suit.

Everything goes wrong on Venus and the inventor finds himself fighting for his life in this thrilling forthcoming story #24 of the series.

 

HoverCity coverTom Swift and the HoverCity -- This will be 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 who would think nothing of stealing a plane just to get to all the rich people's homes?

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 SubNeptuniun Circumnavigation -- After a consortium of nations decides to mount an expecition to study the oceans of the 8th planet, and cannot agree how to do it, Tom Swift is asked by the President of the United States if he would take command and make it all happen; he decides he can do it fast and better than any of their ideas and creates a new type of spacegoing ship that can also act as a submarine.

When he arrives at Neptune he has to orbit the planet until he can find a way to get through the stronger-than-hurricane force storms and the many chunks of frozen methane flying around. When he does and descends into the depths trying to find the solid center, he and his crew become stranded miles down when his drive systems freeze up. It is a struggle against time as Tom has sworn to get home in time for the birth of his third child!

 

Tom Swift 27 cover

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!

 

Released" October, 2019

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. 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.

 

Released: December 2019

 

And… at least three more to come in 2020!

#30 - Space Friends Return
#31 - Antimatter PowerGrid
32 - The Chaos Planet

 

The TOM SWIFT Lunar Colony Saga
This is a self-contained mini-series of novels, the first ever Tom Swift books to be written by two authors!

Thomas Hudson teams with Leo L. Levesque in a cross-country tag-team approach to writing Tom Swift novels. The results
started out to be a two-book story, then it became a trilogy and now is is officially a "saga." The action takes place on Earth and on
the Moon where a pair of meglomaniacs have set up what amounts to a slave colony with the aim of casuing so much havoc and
damage on the planet below them that they can rule mankind from their domes on the dark side of the Moon. But there is more
to each story as other mysteries are woven into the main plot that help explain why things are happening as they are.

While each book is generally self-contined and they may be enjoyed separately, this is an ongoing story that builds
from the start of the first volume and continues throughout the rest of the books. With each book the authors have
thought, "Ah, this finishes it all!" but have then quickly found there is a lot more story to be told. So, who knows
how many books may eventually be in this Tom Swift Lunar Colony Saga?


Tom Swift and the Space Battering Ram

Space Battering Ram coverThe 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!

Tom Swift and the Cometary Reclamation

Space Battering Ram coverThe 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?

Tom Swift and the Lunar Volcano

Lunar Volcano coverThird 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

Tom Swift adn the Killing Moon coverThe 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?

 

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--A retelling of the original and very first Tom Swift story, this time with the overt racists language of the day toned down greatly and modern day sentence structure and styles have been used to tell the story of how young Tom gets his hands on a motorcycle, fixes it up and improves much of it for better performance, and gets himself involved with a bunch or crooks who have stolen his father's latest invention.

This story remains the same basic one printed in 1910 but is more readable by today's generation. It also makes a couple of the characters less cartoonish and silly.

 

Tom Swift and His Motorboat--Number 2 of the reimagined original Tom Swift series. This time around Tom buys and fixes up a motopr boat with the idea he can race it all over the nearby lake and even win against his personal foe, Andy Foger! But, the criminals from book one are back with more plans and crimes, this time they hide a valuable stolen item and It seems to be up to Tom to find it and send them off to jail.

 

Tom Swift and His Airship--Number 3 of the renewed Tom Swift series. Tom has an idea to build a brand new type of airship based on someideas he gets from the man he rescued from a fiery death plunge in book 2. With it they, along with Tom's friend Mr. Damon, head off on a tour of the eastern states. Little do they know that Andy Foger has told the police that Tom was involved in a break and enter theft in town just before he departs. When locals start shooting at the three airmen, they can think of no good reason for it so they return home wher Tom must now clear his good name.

 

 

 

Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat--Number 4 in the series. Tom's father, Barton Swift, has entered a special contest for teh u.S. Government to build and sail a submarine of his own design on a lengthy voyage and test. That test includes heading down to South America where a ship has recently been sunk with a fortune in gold bars on board. One of theother competitors, bent on winning the bid also seems willing to do anything to get his hands on that gold, even if that means murdering Tom and his father!

 

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, while he works to prove that the fire was started under very mysterious circumstances, he races to find a way to create a sure-fire mehod 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. It was written in 2012 in the original style and appears for sale both as a separate novella as well as in a special edition of that newer Tom Swift novel.

 

   
 
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