Victor Appleton 3 hr 16 min read

Boy inventor Tom Swift builds a mighty aerial warship, a naval terror of the seas, as saboteurs, spies, and enemies scheme to steal his plans and wreck his newest creation.

Victor Appleton's 1915 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a wondrous flying warship, daring flights, and thwarted plots, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).