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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I remember them, now that you jogged my memory.
However, aren't those the one's that were written during the early part of the 20th Century?
The one's I read, as a child, were the ones written during the 1940s or 1950s (I think), and written by his son.
I distinctly remember these two different "generational" series because I remember finding an old one published from around 1910 or so, and reading it and being VERY amused.
Thanks,
Don
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Absolutely correct. The books that I've published as 5 anthologies are the 25 (out of 40-ish) books in the
original Tom Swift series, published between 1910 and 1941.
The ones that you remember reading (I read them too as a teenager) are the "Tom Swift Jr" (the son of the "original" Tom Swift) series, published between 1954 and 1971. They are still under copyright protection.
I think personally that the original series were much better stories; when I read the Tom Swift Jr series now (which were mainly written during the height of the Cold War), the recurring "Brungarian" enemies are crudely-disguised referrences to the Soviet Union, and I find their whole tone to be rather unpleasantly xenophobic.
I've been collecting these juvenile "series" books for many years, and have all except the very last of the Tom Swift Jr series (the last one is exceedingly rare and expensive, selling for over $1000 for a copy in good condition. Every Tom Swift collector's dream is to find one in a 2nd hand bookshop for peanuts!).