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An
inexplicable
moment of blindness strikes human astronauts throughout the solar
system--and
when the blindness ends, the Martian moon Deimos has been utterly
destroyed!
The fantastic event begins Tom Swift’s most fantastic exploit. What is
the
cause? And what has happened to the extraterrestrials occupying Deimos,
the
Swifts’ Space Friends? The
answer
hides behind one guise after another as the young inventor is compelled
to go
on the run to protect an artifact of the extinct Martian race from the
secret
group known as Crisium, a decades-old conspiracy directed against the
Swift
family. Tom and Bud are forced to seek refuge in Dwa, a high-tech
installation
beneath the Himalayas whose all-wise Directors are determined to attain
their
Great Purpose--creation of an artificial micro-universe by means of
Swift
Enterprises’ experimental quantinuum machine. Tom’s own new invention,
his
nandroid exploradrone, is key to the project. Can he perfect it before
Crisium
invades Dwa--or an uncanny phenomenon, the Un, brings fatal cataclysm
to Tom
and the seekers of a cosmos alien to our own?