Tom Swift and His Giant Robot

Appleton, Victor II (pseudonym). Tom Swift and His Giant Robot (The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures).[1] New York City: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954.

From the Tom Swift home page (linked below):

Summary: Extracted from the dustjacket of the book:

When the Swift Enterprises undertakes to set up an atomic laboratory for the U.S. Government, Tom Jr. goes to work on a giant robot that can function by remote control when exposed to deadly atomic and hydrogen rays. The invention intrigues the interest of a band of clever bank robbers who think they can use the giant robot in their work.

How they interfere with Tom's invention by means of flocks of mechanical crows; how a mad scientist joins the robber gang and almost succeeds in destroying the atomic laboratory from within its well-guarded walls; how, one by one, the clever criminals are outwitted and captured by Tom and his friend Bud; how the giant robot is completed in time to perform his part in the saving of the laboratory are all told in this exciting yarn.[2]

The page also includes a section on "the Giant Robot" under "Major Inventions."

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Cited fondly in Peter R. Bergethon's "Landscapes of Change: Science, Science Fiction, and Advances in Biology" in New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction in his reference to resisting "the geek scientist impulse to pseudo-HALify this cluster" of super-computer equipment where he works "to behave like the HAL computer in Arthur Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (p. [3]).

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