Kyle Harrison
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Tom Swift and His Space Solartron
Tom Swift and His Space Solartron (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures, Book 13)
- Author
- Victor Appleton II
- Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 183
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: One of the mid-century Tom Swift Jr. boys’ adventures — the invention-a-book series that got a generation of American engineers started.
Where I saw it: Posted by @pmarca on X (June 17, 2025) with no text at all: a photograph of four New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures hardcovers — His Space Solartron, His Electronic Retroscope, His Spectromarine Selector, and the Cosmic Astronauts. This card stands for the shelf; the other three titles are recorded here rather than given cards of their own.
Connections
- Science Fiction — the juvenile end of it, and an unusually load-bearing one.
- Marc Andreessen — who posted the shelf.