TOM SWIFT AND HIS
3-D TELEJECTOR

by VICTOR APPLETON II

A WEIRD green object has appeared in outer space! Thrusting into our solar system from the great gulf beyond, the Green Orb barely registers upon Earth- based instruments, its nature unknown.
    But Tom Swift begins to wonder if the uncanny wanderer is behind a series of strange incidents — a phony ghost that seems to come to life before Tom's eyes, telephone calls received but never made, violent interference with Tom's space- probing megascope, and even a phantom apparition of the young inventor himself!
    A manned flyby of the Orb ends in danger and mystery. To pierce the object's veil of secrecy, Tom decides to send a fleet of robot drones, his Video Vikings, on a probe mission, equipped with came- ras to relay their findings to Tom's remarkable new invention, the telejector, able to produce startling 3-D images in midair.
    The Green Orb does not reveal its secrets easily. First Tom and his friend Bud must locate a little girl, key to communicating with the Orb, before she is made to disappear as have a host of ESP- gifted individuals, without explanation. It is only after a gantlet of electrifying thrills that Tom is able at last to visit the space phantom on its own terms — to block the world cataclysm threatened by its cease- less approach.

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