Welcome to THOMAS HUDSON'S Author's Pages These are the current offerings from Tom Hudson along with brief descriptions. You may Right-Click any title below to directly download a PDF file of that story, single click a title Also to note: All of this authors works are available in paper and Kindle formats from Amazon.com and Click each cover to go to the Amazon.com page for that title. The first 17 novels in the TOM SWIFT INVENTION SERIES have been turned into collectable hand-bound books featuring 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.
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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 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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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?
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The big problem is that Earth is almost directly in its path. Can he find out what's going on before disaster strikes? |
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! |
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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. |
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.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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This is the 29th book in this series.
Released: December 2019 |
And… at least three more to come in 2020!
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The TOM SWIFT Lunar Colony Saga Thomas Hudson teams with Leo L. Levesque in a cross-country tag-team approach to writing Tom Swift novels. The results While each book is generally self-contined and they may be enjoyed separately, this is an ongoing story that builds |
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Tom Swift and the Space Battering Ram
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
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? |
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Tom Swift and the Lunar Volcano
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
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?
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