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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: What were you reading in 1968?
Date: 30 Jul 2024 19:47:03 GMT
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In article <v8bdn6$15ejc$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 7/30/2024 2:18 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <v88j68$84c$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>> Jay E. Morris <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would have been checking books out of the small town school library so
>>>> anything I was reading in 68 wouldn't have been published in 68. Or 67,
>>>> or 66 and maybe a couple year before.[1] Well, there may have been the
>>>> rare exception in the drugstore revolving book rack that I convinced Mom
>>>> to buy.
>>>
>>> My elementary school had a small library but one that had been
>>> excellently-curated some time in the 1920s and not really updated
>>> since then.  I thought this was very cool and read a lot of Jules Verne and
>>> souvenir booklets from the Sesquicentennial.
>>>
>>> Then I discovered that in the attic of the school were stacks of books
>>> that had been removed from the library, including a full set of the
>>> original Tom Swift books.  These probably didn't have quite the effect
>>> that they would have had on the original readers, since the idea of
>>> building your own cars and airplanes was not as farfetched as when the
>>> books were originally written.  But I think this might have made them
>>> more appealing since they were relatively achievable fantasies.  I have
>>> since then built my own car out of scrap parts.
>>> --scott
>>>
>> 
>> They started out pretty prosaic with just a motorcycle, but eventually
>> Tom was doing Skytrains, through-the-walls "Television Detector"s
>> and electric bullets.
>
>Don't confuse Tom Swift Jr & Sr. Tom pere started with 'Tom Swift and
>his Motorcycle', in the first series, 1910-1941.
>

Thus, I mentioned his motorcycle.

>In 1954 we get Tom fils, That's the one I remember, with the series
>continuing up to 1971.
>

The last two were quite different and worse as I recall.

>The third seriew, 1981-1984, is ambiguous whether we're dealing with
>Jr, or Tem Swift III.
>

Awful.  All continuity dropped among other things.

>The latest series (6th) brings us up to 2022, so 'Victor Appleton'
>(sometimes V.A II) has been cranking them out for over 120 years. :-)

No experience with this one.
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