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Tom Swift on the phantom satellite / by Victor Appleton II ; illustrated by Graham Kaye.
LIBRA PS3501.P65 T6765 1956a
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Appleton, Victor, II
- Series:
- Appleton, Victor, II. New Tom Swift, Jr., adventures
- The new Tom Swift, Jr., adventures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Satellites--Juvenile fiction.
- Satellites.
- Swift, Tom (Fictitious character)--Juvenile fiction.
- Swift, Tom (Fictitious character).
- Satellites--Brightness.
- Satellites--Crust.
- Satellites--Electric properties.
- Satellites--Exploration.
- Satellites--Exploration (Jewish theology).
- Satellites--Figure.
- Satellites--Internal structure.
- Satellites--Libration.
- Satellites--Magnetic properties.
- Satellites--Mass.
- Satellites--Mythology.
- Satellites--Origin.
- Satellites--Phases.
- Satellites--Religious aspects.
- Satellites--Rising and setting.
- Satellites--Rotation.
- Satellites--Surfaces.
- Satellites--Temperature and radiation.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Science fiction -- Juvenile.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 1956.
- Summary:
- Consternation and panic grip the world as a strange new moon shoots earthward. Millions of people are relieved when the weird, glowing runaway moon in the sky finally goes into orbit 50,000 miles from earth. Tom Swift Jr., who has developed a machine that will produce artificial earth-type gravity in the airless void of space, makes plans to explore this new satellite. In the gigantic, atomic spaceship Titan, Tom and his associates land on the mysterious moonlet and claim the bleak but fabulously rich possession for the United States. While exploring the satellite to pinpoint the best location for setting up the young inventor's atmosphere-making machine, Swift expedition scouts discover a spaceship belonging to a hostile nation. Claiming first right to the moon because of prior landing, the foreign scientists try every means to annihilate Tom and his group. How Tom succeeds in proving the Brungarian claim invalid, and saves his associates from being set adrift in outer space, will keep the reader spellbound to the very last page of this spine-tingling adventure. - Jacket.
- Contents:
- The awesome spectacle
- An ingenious invention
- Top-secret project
- An attack in space
- Time bomb!
- A dangerous double
- Capturing a spy
- The mysterious caller
- Successful strategy
- Sky-wheel mishap
- Earth's new moon
- In Devil's Hole
- Friend or enemy?
- Heat trap
- A doubtful truce
- Emergency alarm
- A strange discovery
- Terror from the sky
- Rescue raid
- Sabotage!
- A polar battle
- Cavern of secrets
- A madman's scheme
- Race with death
- A hero's welcome.
- OCLC:
- 4678341
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