Subj : the original Elon Musk
To   : All
From : George Pope
Date : Sun Jun 05 2022 06:41:04

Did any of you read the Tom Swift stories as a kid? c.f:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift

Innovative, into going to space. . .

Remind you of anyone who was born years after(in 1971)?

The original Tom Swift stories were published in the 30 years before WW2. Other, like series, were published over he next 60 years.

I'm not sure which series I was into, but my mom bought the entire set of them  for me -- little orange hardback books, looked much like the Hardy Boys style,  but orange instead of blue, but I devoured the full set, as well as the full  set of Hardy Boys novels!

I just realized this morning that Tom Swift was a sort of literary prototype  for Elon Musk, while trying to think of hoe to get my son reading these stories I loved so much as a kid!

Did you read this series of books, with their silly adverbial punistry? ("'Hot  damn, I've discovered oil!' said Tom, crudely." and "'Oh no, I've cremated the  piper god; he's in this skillet,' said Tom with panache" are two I've written.)

Or what series grabbed your attention when you were a child?

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