Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout is the fifth book in the original Tom Swift series. "e;Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading."e; "e;These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good."e; This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "e;invention fiction"e; or "e;Edisonade"e;.