Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X by Victor Appleton artwork

Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X by Victor Appleton

20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

If you haven't come across the 200-book series about Tom Swift Jr, this book would be an interesting one to start with. The series is aimed at the young adult readership, probably male, and the young adolescent hero, Tom Swift Jr is the son of Tom Swift Sr. The books portray the perennially 18-year-old Tom, a tall and angular youngster, possessed of a very high intelligence and presence of mind. Regular characters include his parents, younger sister Sandy, best buddy Bud Barclay, his regular date Phyllis Newton, and the comic roly-poly Chow Winkler. This star cast features in almost all the novels.

Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X is an exciting sci-fi tale, in which the inventive and scientifically inclined Tom and friends have set up Swift Enterprises, a vast four-mile facility where inventions are conceived and built. They have established contact with intelligent beings on a distant planet and make preparations to welcome the first visitor from there. However, they're unexpectedly drawn into a deadly internecine battle between diabolical forces on the distant planet which aim to sabotage the visit and destroy Earth. Tom's quick thinking and inventiveness come to the fore as he develops a devastating weapon to counter the evil forces. This exciting tale certainly keeps you interested and engaged.

The Tom Swift series is the product of a writing syndicate called the Stratemeyer Syndicate which published a range of packaged children's literature in the 1950s. Other series include the famous Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books, all of which were penned by a host of writers employed by this syndicate. In fact the syndicate employed three PhDs in science and technology to ensure scientific authenticity. The series is still running and the last set was published between 2006-7.

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Episodes

01 – The Earthquake

January 02, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes - 4.77 MB

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02 – The Mysterious Hitchhiker

January 01, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MB

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03 – Report From InterPol

December 31, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 6.68 MB

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04 – Another Tremor!

December 30, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MB

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05 – Secret Cache

December 29, 2023 00:00 - 9 minutes - 3.81 MB

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06 – Brungarian Coup

December 28, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MB

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07 – Wall of Water

December 27, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MB

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08 – A Suspect Talks

December 26, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 4.77 MB

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09 – The Cave Monster

December 25, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MB

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10 – Energy From Planet X

December 24, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 5.72 MB

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11 – An Electrical Christening

December 23, 2023 00:00 - 8 minutes - 3.81 MB

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12 – Exman Takes Orders

December 22, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.77 MB

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13 – Disaster Strikes

December 21, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MB

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14 – Air-borne Hijackers

December 20, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 6.68 MB

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15 – Kidnaped!

December 19, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 6.68 MB

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16 – A Unique Experiment

December 18, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MB

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17 – An Urgent Warning

December 17, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.72 MB

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18 – Earthquake Island

December 16, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 7.63 MB

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19 – A Fiendish Machine

December 15, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 6.68 MB

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20 – The Robot Spy’s Story

December 14, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 4.77 MB

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