Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

This was the fifth novel in the original Tom Swift series. It was written by Howard Garis for the Stratemeyer Syndicate and was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1910 under the house pseudonym Victor Appleton. Tom was a young man who was following in his father's footsteps as an inventor. They live i......more

Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout! In this adventure our hero enters an electric car race! Will Tom escape the kidnappers? Will he live through his electrocution? Will his girlfriend be there to see him win the race?!?!? (Seriously though this one was bad)......more

After spending lots of time reading boy books written in the mid to late 1800s, I've finally continued my time travel experience to the early 1900s. The Tom Swift series is one of the earliest books in the Stratemeyer Syndicate (think The Bobbsey Twins Series, Hardy Boys Complete Series Set Books 1-......more

I do like the speculative science in these. It is the best part of the books, especially when looked at from over 100 years later. Electric cars are only just becoming a staple and here they are in 1910 being predicted to be fast, flashy, stable and far better than most gasoline engine cars. Rather......more

Totally middle of the road (snerk) Tom Swift. Because this is a formula novel in a long running series there isn't much that is new here. Because it's early in the series his enemies include another teenager. As always, the majority of the chapters pivot around some manufactured, low risk, tension.......more