On 05/03/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 12:31 PM +0000 3/5/06, Philip Pemberton wrote:
In message <20060304205928.017C8BA48B5 at
mini-me.trailing-edge.com>
shoppa_classiccmp at
trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) wrote:
Tom Swift? Never heard of 'em... It's
either way before my time, or one
of
the many things that never managed to get across
the Atlantic...
It probably never made it across the Atlantic.
They did, I remember reading several of them from our primary school library
in the mid 70's, I suppose I would have been 8 or 9. All I can remember now
is he had a very cool submarine/helicopter contraption that could fly at
humoungous speed and that the style, with hindsight, was E.E Smith gung-ho
for a junior audience.
--
Pete Edwards
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" - Niels
Bohr