THOMAS HUDSON -- (1955- )

Tom became intrigued with the world of TOM SWIFT at an early age, starting with the first Tom Swift Jr, book (Tom Swift and His Flying Lab) when he was in the third grade. That was during the hayday of the Tom Swift Jr. series (1954 to 1971) when he dutifully spent $1.25 several times a year when the latest book was released.

He had a complete collection as of #30, Tom Swift and His G-Force Inverter, when the family moved several hundred miles away and his mother made him "donate" his books to the local library. Her attitude was if a book has been read once, get rid of it! Nobody ever reads books twice! This was not the last time she would do something diabolical like this! (She also threw out his Archie Comics collection including #'s 3 through 40 of the 1946-1990s series) while he was serving in the Navy during the end of the Viet Nam War! Is he bitter? HA!!!)

He spent numerous years as a young adult locating and buying all the Tom Swift Jr. books in the series again, included the final one, #33, Galaxy Ghosts, which was a truly horrible book. So horrible that you will notice he wrote an entirely NEW book using that title but NOT THE SAME STORY!

About every 7-8 years he picked up the series and read all thirty-three books, enjoying the memories and the old friends (except possibly for #33). But, on a horrible day in mid-2009 he found that the old books had reached their "Best By" date, the point where the science was mostly disproven, the characters no longer rang true, and he was in despair until an Internet search discovered a website of an author who had "reimagined" most of the original stories and even had written a couple brand new ones.

Once he discovered Scott Dickerson's TomSwiftLives.com books and started an email friendship, the suggestion of writing his own Tom Swift book came up. Evidently, if you frequently write three-page emails to an author, he or she is going to ask if you don't think maybe you ought to redirect that energy into sometihing, like maybe a book of your own! So, and with the encouragement of his wife, he began writing a new Tom Swift story almost at once.

He has adopted (borrowed…?) Scott D's world and built on that rather than any of the previously published series, or taking his own separate track. In this version of Tom's world are many familiar characters and a few new or replaced ones. It all takes place in our near future, not the 1950s!

In addition to his novels he has written a series of novellas based around individual "other" characters who appear in Tom's stories, only this time each story centers around them. He also has written a series of stories centering on many of Tom's fantastic yet lesser known inventions, and another pair of series with Tom's mother, Anne Swift, in her double life as mother/wife/home maker and her life as one of the FBI's top microbiologist detectives, and one about his father Damon Swift and some of his wilder inventions. He also has written a series of Young Tom Swift stories about the pre-teen Tom… plus a couple cookbooks.

Pretty much all of Tom Hudson's works are available on Amazon.com in paper and Kindle editions, many of them on BarnesAndNoblel.com as NOOK-style ebooks (but B&N changed too many things making it VERY HARD to post new or edited works, so I do not post ther any more!), and on the publisher LULU in paper and even some hardbound volumes.

Tom writes under several pen names: Victor Appleton II, T. Edward Fox, & Clarence Young IV and was proud to be a listed member of OREGON AUTHORS except in early 2017 that site was taken over and all author information erased. Sigh. Some came back in 2018 but it isn't the same. Another sigh!

In late 2016, he discovered a 32 "book" series called the Motor Matt Stories. Although horribly racist as were many things in 1909, they are a bit of fun and he opted to keep the historical wording. This was published weekly, all written by the same author, and each story was about 30,000 words long. After the main series was cancelled at #32, two futher adventures were published under a different series title. The entire set of 34 may be read on-line from within this site as Mr. Hudson has taken all the raw text files and illustrations and assembled/formatted them for easy reading HERE.

Finally, for now, he is in the process of recovering all of the The Three Investigators novels (the 43 published in the original series and 11 in the follow on series) and has completed the unpublished 44th story in series.CLICK HERE to see what that is all about.

NEW FOR 2018: On a dare, Tom wrote, and published publish (June 2018), a Romance Novel titled The Love of Skunk. See right over there ——>… and down a few lines…

Finally, He has been engaged in translating obscure works by old authors, and recently came upon this gem, heretofore never translated from the French. Enjoy The Claims Against the Female Driver by J. Verne.

This is the list of all released Tom Swift novels along with links to the pages containing the descriptions of these and Tom's (Hudson, not Swift) other works.

1-TOM SWIFT and His EnvirOzone Revivicator

2-TOM SWIFT and His QuieTurbine SkyLiner

3-TOM SWIFT and the Transcontinental BulleTrain

4-TOM SWIFT and His Oceanic SubLiminator

5-TOM SWIFT and His Cyclonic Eradicator

6-TOM SWIFT: Galactic Ambassador

7-TOM SWIFT and the Paradox Planet

8-TOM SWIFT and the Galaxy Ghosts

9-TOM SWIFT and His Martian TerraVironment

10-TOM SWIFT and His Tectonic Interrupter

11-TOM SWIFT and His AntiInferno Suppressor

12-TOM SWIFT and the High Space L-Evator

13-TOM SWIFT and the IntraEarth Invaders

14-TOM SWIFT and the Coupe of Invisibility

15-TOM SWIFT and the Yesterday Machine

16-TOM SWIFT and the Reconstructed Planet

17-TOM SWIFT and His NanoSurgery Brigade

18-TOM SWIFT and His Thermo-Ion Jetpack

19-TOM SWIFT and the Atlantean HydroWay

20-TOM SWIFT and the Electricity Vampires

21-TOM SWIFT and the Solar Chaser

22-TOM SWIFT and the SeaSpace HydroFarm

23-TOM SWIFT and the Martian Moon Re-Placement

24-TOM SWIFT and the Venusian InvulnoSuit

25-TOM SWIFT and the Hover City

26-TOM SWIFT and the SubNeptunian Circumnavigation

27-TOM SWIFT and the Marianas AquaNoids (Newish)

28-TOM SWIFT and the Starless Planet (Newer)

29-TOM SWIFT and the HyperSonic Spaceplane (Newest)

…and coming in 2020 and beyond,
#30 TOM SWIFT and the Space Friends Return
#31 TOM SWIFT and His Antimatter PowerGrid

The "Lunar Colony Saga": (with Leo Levesque)

TOM SWIFT and the Space Battering Ram
TOM SWIFT and the Cometary Reclamation
TOM SWIFT and the Lunar Volcano
TOM SWIFT and the Killing Moon

THE ANNE SWIFT and DAMON SWIFT Page

ANNE SWIFT Novel (A Biography)

DAMON SWIFT and the CosmoSoar: a novel
DAMON SWIFT and the Citadel: a novel
DAMON SWIFT'S Biggest Enterprise: a novel
DAMON SWIFT and the Citadel 2: a Bud & Chow Story

and… the newest Damon Story collection: Damon Swift In Flight

OTHER NOVELLA COLLECTIONS AND OTHER SERIES

And… THE ODDBALLS: Odds and Ends and Misfits

NEW--The Love of Skunk: A Romance

All these books, and many more, are available from Amazon.com

and many from Thomas' other publisher: Lulu.com

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