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TOM SWIFT AND HIS MEGASCOPE SPACE PROBER
BY VICTOR APPLETON II
No. 20 in the Tom Swift Jr. series.

From the front:
"Someone has stolen your invention!" Bud Barclay tells his pal Tom Swift Jr.
And when a scientist in France publicly tests a helium-extraction machine, it
seems Bud is right. The machine explodes, precisely as Tom predicted any
model made from his own unperfected plans would do. But the explosion is only
the beginning of one of the strangest mysteries in the young scientist-inventor's
career. Time and again he is forced to combat a sinister secret enemy while he
works to complete his megascope space prober, designed to "keep an eye on
the universe."
Meanwhile, Bud is offered the opportunity to participate in a manned
government space probe to Venus. Although the project is being directed by the
Astro-Dynamics Corporation, a competitor of Swift Enterprises, Tom encourages
his friend to make the flight in the interest of the United States.
When another secret invention of Tom's becomes the target of his enemy, all
evidence points to the fact that an unidentified traitor at Swift Enterprises is in
league with a criminal mastermind outside the plant.
How Tom is trapped when he unmasks his enemies, how he engineers a
bizarre escape, and how he executes a fantastic rescue when Bud's spaceship
goes out of control on its flight to Venus are just a few of the suspense-filled
highlights in the young space pioneer's latest challenge.


The Tom Swift Jr. series:
1 Tom Swift and his Flying Lab (1954)
2 Tom Swift and his Jetmarine (1954)
3 Tom Swift and his Rocket Ship (1954)
4 Tom Swift and his Giant Robot (1954)
5 Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954)
6 Tom Swift and his Outpost in Space (1955)
7 Tom Swift and his Diving Seacopter (1956)
8 Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire (1956)
9 Tom Swift on the Phantom Satellite (1956)
10 Tom Swift and his Ultrasonic Cycloplane (1957)
11 Tom Swift and his Deep-Sea Hydrodome (1958)
12 Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon (1958)
13 Tom Swift and his Space Solartron (1958)
14 Tom Swift and his Electronic Retroscope (1959)
15 Tom Swift and his Spectromarine Selector (1960)
16 Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts (1960)
17 Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X (1961)
18 Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung (1961)
19 Tom Swift and his Triphibian Atomicar (1962)
20 Tom Swift and his Megascope Space Prober (1962)
21 Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates (1963)
22 Tom Swift and his Repelatron Skyway (1963)
23 Tom Swift and his Aquatomic Tracker (1964)