All books in the various Tom Swift book series. All books are credited to the pseudonym Victor Appleton (or, in the case of the Tom Swift Jr. series, Victor Appleton II), while the character was created by Edward Stratemeyer for his book packaging house, the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Counterparts to the Tom Swift character and series are later Stratemeyer creations, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, the former of which Swift crossed over with in the fourth series.

The original Tom Swift series The first novels to feature the Tom Swift character were released in 1910 by Grosset & Dunlap. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, and written by several ghostwriters in its duration.

The first 38 titles were published by Grosset & Dunlap, with two ghostwriters: Howard Garis wrote the first thirty-five titles, while Harriet Adams wrote the final three. Two more titles were published as a part of the Big Little Book series (by rival Western Publishing), and were ghostwritten by Thomas Moyston Mitchell.

+ Title, authorship, publication date, and source text (when available) # TitlePublic domain source Pub. Ghostwriter 1 Tom Swift and His Motor CycleOr, Fun and Adventure on the RoadWikisourceProject Gutenberg 1910 Howard Garis 2 Tom Swift and His Motor BoatOr, The Rivals of Lake CarlopaWikisourceProject Gutenberg 3 Tom Swift and His AirshipOr, The Stirring Cruise of the Red CloudWikisourceProject Gutenberg 4 Tom Swift and His Submarine BoatOr, Under the Ocean for Sunken TreasureWikisourceProject Gutenberg 5 Tom Swift and His Electric RunaboutOr, The Speediest Car on the RoadWikisourceProject Gutenberg 6 Tom Swift and His Wireless MessageOr, The Castaways of Earthquake IslandWikisourceProject Gutenberg 1911 7 Tom Swift Among the Diamond MakersOr, The Secret of Phantom MountainWikisourceProject Gutenberg 8 Tom Swift in the Caves of IceOr, The Wreck of the AirshipWikisourceProject Gutenberg 9 Tom Swift and His Sky RacerOr, The Quickest Flight on RecordWikisourceProject Gutenberg 10 Tom Swift and His Electric RifleOr, Daring Adventures on Elephant IslandWikisourceProject Gutenberg 11 Tom Swift in the City of GoldOr, Marvelous Adventures UndergroundWikisourceProject Gutenberg 1912 12 Tom Swift and His Air GliderOr, Seeking the Platinum TreasureWikisourceProject Gutenberg 13 Tom Swift in CaptivityOr, A Daring Escape by AirshipWikisourceProject Gutenberg 14 Tom Swift and His Wizard CameraOr, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving PicturesWikisourceProject Gutenberg 15 Tom Swift and His Great SearchlightOr, On the Border for Uncle SamWikisourceProject Gutenberg 16 Tom Swift and His Giant CannonOr, The Longest Shots on RecordWikisourceProject Gutenberg 1913 17 Tom Swift and His Photo TelephoneOr, The Picture That Saved a FortuneWikisourceProject Gutenberg 1914 18 Tom Swift and His Aerial WarshipOr, The Naval Terror of the SeasProject Gutenberg 1915 19 Tom Swift and His Big TunnelOr, The Hidden City of the AndesProject Gutenberg 1916 20 Tom Swift in the Land of WondersOr, The Underground Search for the Idol of GoldProject Gutenberg 1917 21 Tom Swift and His War TankOr, Doing His Bit for Uncle SamProject Gutenberg 1918 22 Tom Swift and His Air ScoutOr, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the SkyProject Gutenberg 1919 23 Tom Swift and His Undersea SearchOr, The Treasure on the Floor of the AtlanticProject Gutenberg 1920 24 Tom Swift Among the Fire FightersOr, Battling with Flames in the AirProject Gutenberg 1921 25 Tom Swift and His Electric LocomotiveOr, Two Miles a Minute on the RailsProject Gutenberg 1922 26 Tom Swift and His Flying BoatOr, Castaways of the Giant IcebergProject GutenbergFaded Page 1923 27 Tom Swift and His Great Oil GusherOr, The Treasure of Goby FarmProject GutenbergFaded Page 1924 28 Tom Swift and His Chest of SecretsOr, Tracing the Stolen InventionsProject GutenbergFaded Page 1925 29 Tom Swift and His Airline ExpressOr, From Ocean to Ocean by DaylightProject GutenbergFaded Page 1926 30 Tom Swift Circling the GlobeOr, The Daring Cruise of the Air MonarchProject GutenbergFaded Page 1927 31 Tom Swift and His Talking PicturesOr, The Greatest Invention on RecordProject GutenbergFaded Page 1928 32 Tom Swift and His House on WheelsOr, A Trip around the Mountain of MysteryProject Gutenberg Faded Page 1929 33 Tom Swift and His Big DirigibleOr, Adventures Over the Forest of FireProject Gutenberg 1930 34 Tom Swift and His Sky TrainOr, Overland Through the Clouds 1931 35 Tom Swift and His Giant MagnetOr, Bringing Up the Lost Submarine 1932 36 Tom Swift and His Television DetectorOr, Trailing the Secret Plotters 1933 Harriet Adams 37 Tom Swift and His Ocean AirportOr, Foiling the Haargolanders 1934 38 Tom Swift and His Planet StoneOr, Discovering the Secret of Another World 1935 39 Tom Swift and His Giant TelescopeWikisourceProject Gutenberg 1939 Thomas Moyston Mitchell 40 Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer 1941

Tom Swift Jr. Officially titled Tom Swift Jr., the second series was published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1954 to 1971. Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X and Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung are in the public domain, and are available as downloadable texts from Project Gutenberg.

+ Titles, authorship, and publication dates # Title Pub. Ghostwriter 1 Tom Swift and His Flying Lab 1954 William Dougherty 2 Tom Swift and His Jetmarine John Almquist 3 Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship 4 Tom Swift and His Giant Robot Richard Sklar 5 Tom Swift and His Atomic Earth Blaster James Duncan Lawrence 6 Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space 1955 7 Tom Swift and His Diving Seacopter 1956 8 Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire Thomas Mulvey 9 Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite James Duncan Lawrence 10 Tom Swift and His Ultrasonic Cycloplane 1957 11 Tom Swift and His Deep-Sea Hydrodome 1958 12 Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon 13 Tom Swift and His Space Solartron 14 Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope 1959 15 Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector 1960 16 Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts 17 Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X 1961 18 Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung 19 Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar 1962 20 Tom Swift and His Megascope Space Prober 21 Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates 1963 22 Tom Swift and His Repelatron Skyway 23 Tom Swift and His Aquatomic Tracker 1964 24 Tom Swift and His 3-D Telejector 25 Tom Swift and His Polar-Ray Dynasphere 1965 26 Tom Swift and His Sonic Boom Trap 27 Tom Swift and His Subocean Geotron 1966 28 Tom Swift and the Mystery Comet 29 Tom Swift and the Captive Planetoid 1967 30 Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter 1968 Thomas Mulvey 31 Tom Swift and His Dyna-4 Capsule 1969 Richard McKenna 32 Tom Swift and His Cosmotron Express 1970 33 Tom Swift and the Galaxy Ghosts 1971 Vincent Buranelli

Tom Swift (1981)

The third Tom Swift series was launched following the Stratemeyer Syndicate moving publishers to Simon & Schuster. The series was published under the publisher's Wanderer imprint (as were the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books at the time), and lasted from 1981 to 1984. This series took place in outer space and featured fan-favorite character Aristotle the Robot, who was introduced in the second volume.

The series was cancelled in 1984, when Simon & Schuster bought the Syndicate. Two titles — Chaos on Earth and The Micro World — were written by Neal Barrett, but not published before its cancellation. The manuscripts of the two titles are in the Syndicate's archives, which are held at the New York Public Library.

+ Titles, authorship, and publication dates # Title Pub. Ghostwriter 1 The City in the Stars 1981 William Rotsler & Sharmon Divono 2 Terror on the Moons of Jupiter 3 The Alien Probe 4 The War in Outer Space 5 The Astral Fortress 6 The Rescue Mission 1982 7 Ark Two Neal Barrett, Jr. 8 Crater of Mystery 1983 Mike McQuay 9 Gateway to Doom Bob Vardeman 10 The Invisible Force Neal Barrett, Jr. 11 Planet of Nightmares 1984 Mike MacQuay

Tom Swift (1991)

The fourth Tom Swift series was created as a counterpart to The Nancy Drew Files and The Hardy Boys Casefiles spin-offs, and was published by Archway from 1991 to 1993. The series had two books which crossed over with the Hardy Boys, a sub-series titled Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thrillers — Time Bomb (August 1992) and The Alien Factor (June 1993).

+ Titles, authorship, and publication dates # Title Pub. Ghostwriter 1 The Black Dragon April 1991 Bill McCay 2 The Negative Zone 3 Cyborg Kickboxer June 1991 Steven Grant 4 The DNA Disaster August 1991 F. Gwynplaine MacIntrye 5 Monster Machine October 1991 Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald 6 Aquatech Warriors December 1991 7 Moonstalker February 1992 8 The Microbots April 1992 Robert E. Vardeman 9 Fire Biker June 1992 10 Mind Games October 1992 Bruce Holland Rogers 11 Mutant Beach December 1992 Robert E. Vardeman 12 Death Quake February 1993 Bridget McKenna 13 Quantum Force April 1993

Tom Swift: Young Inventor The fifth series to feature the Tom Swift character was published by Aladdin from 2006 to 2007. The series served as a counterpart to Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers series, both of which were reboots of their original series. Like its counterparts, a big part of the reboot was that titles were now written in first-person narration.

The series was cancelled in late 2007, while its counterparts were rebooted into trilogies. A seventh title, Extraterrestrial Highway, was planned for publication in February 2008; however, it ultimately remained unpublished. There are ISBN's registered for volumes 8-11 in this series, but the titles and status of the manuscripts are unknown.

+ Titles and publication dates # Title Released Ghostwriter 1 Into the Abyss 2 The Robot Olympics Greg Cox 3 The Space Hotel 4 Rocket Racers 5 On Top of the World 6 Under the Radar

Tom Swift Inventors' Academy The sixth series to feature the Tom Swift character was launched by Aladdin in July 2019. It features a young Swift, age is around thirteen, who attends a school for young inventors and scientists. This series, a counterpart to the Hardy Boys Adventures and Nancy Drew Diaries series, is told in first-person narration, and published in eBook, paperback, and hardcover. Audiobooks of the first five titles released on CD narrated by Timothy Andres Pabon. A boxed set of the first four paperbacks was also published using cover art from the first book.

+ Titles and publication dates # Title Released Ghostwriter 1 The Drone Pursuit Michael Anthony Steele 2 The Sonic Breach Michael Anthony Steele 3 Restricted Access Michael Anthony Steele 4 The Virtual Vandal Michael Anthony Steele 5 The Spybot Invasion Michael Anthony Steele 6 Augmented Reality Michael Anthony Steele 7 The Blurred Blogger Michael Anthony Steele 8 Depth Perception Michael Anthony Steele

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