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Who are the
weird masked raiders who storm the Swift Enterprises spaceport, Fearing Island?
Are they bent on blind destruction--or do they have a more sinister goal? And
what is the Ninth Light, a fantastic all-seeing power that can plunge the mind
into oblivion? These questions confront young Tom Swift as he experiments with
a new invention, the duratherm wing, designed to rescue stranded astronauts and
allow emergency return to Earth. Even as Tom and his friend Bud try to
understand the sabotage that turned a space test into a fiery near-fatal
reentry, Enterprises accepts a contract for a great scientific challenge, an
epic voyage around the sun in a newly discovered planetoid, made habitable by
the methods of a famous future-minded visionary. Yet Tom must struggle alone
against his enemies in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean--only to return to a
greater threat as a planetoid careens toward a catastrophic collision with
Earth!