In book 24 of this new series, Tom Swift runs afoul of several flying vehicles including a recent Venus Probe sent to study seismic activity on the super hot second planet. What he does not realize is he will be drawn into a rescue mission when the designers fail to take into consideration many things that go toward keeping a tall structure upright. Before he can even plan a rescue Tom and Bud Barclay must wrestle a small jet down to the ground when someone tries to knock them from the sky. Then, he and another pilot take a test flight that ends in Tom being a crash victim in an unfriendly country where he is rescued by a resistance organization but not before the government there declares to the world that the is dead! Finally, when the mission to Venus looks as if it can be handled by a robot, it soon becomes clear that it will take a human touch. And, we all know that means Tom Swift!
In book 24 of this new series, Tom Swift runs afoul of several flying vehicles including a recent Venus Probe sent to study seismic activity on the super hot second planet. What he does not realize is he will be drawn into a rescue mission when the designers fail to take into consideration many things that go toward keeping a tall structure upright. Before he can even plan a rescue Tom and Bud Barclay must wrestle a small jet down to the ground when someone tries to knock them from the sky. Then, he and another pilot take a test flight that ends in Tom being a crash victim in an unfriendly country where he is rescued by a resistance organization but not before the government there declares to the world that the is dead! Finally, when the mission to Venus looks as if it can be handled by a robot, it soon becomes clear that it will take a human touch. And, we all know that means Tom Swift!
Victor Appleton has usually meant several people each writing a few books in a Tom Swift series. However, in the case of this particular series it is all one person with a great desire to keep Tom Swift alive and to write better (and a bit longer-well, double the length of the original TS novels) books than ever previously been available. Want to picture the author? Think distinguished but prematurely gray hair, slightly long moustache, light, piercing blue eyes and the sort of body he only can have nightmares about. Not actually overweight, he is nonetheless a little spongy around the middle. But, lovable in the same way the Pillsbury Dough Boy was in the old days when they used stop motion photography and not CGI imaging. He lives in the Pacific Northwest where as he writes this is is closing in on a second 100° day in a row. He dislikes 100° days whether they are in a row or singly.
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