Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids by Isaac Asimov (EPUB)

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Twenty-five years before, Lucky Starr’s parents had been destroyed during a pirate raid on the Terrestrial Empire. Now Lucky was a man, and an officer of the Council of Science. His ship was heavily armed, the pirates were at hand, the the time for sweet blaster vengeance was near!

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⭐The important thing to remember is the WHY Lucky Starr was created, as told by Asimov himself. It was done by request as competition with other 50’s kids television heroes, the “outer space” type heroes that is. Tom Corbett, Space Patrol, Captain Video et al. Given the origin of the series, the lack of hard science is understandable, there’s only so much you can do with a half-hour tv show that’s really trying to sell you some brand of cereal or breakfast drink or so on.Given that, Asimov created what would have been a superior attempt at kid-vid science fiction had it made it to the airways. As explained, when the show failed to materialize he began to move away from the “smokin rockets” stuff and tried to bring some real science to the readers, keeping in mind the age of the prospective reader and what was acceptable as science in the early 50’s.It’s easy to laugh at those stories today, but perhaps not so easy as laughing at John Carters trip to Mars via Edgar Rice Burroughs method. Reality catches up with all scientists and science prognostication.

⭐I have always enjoyed delving into the broad range of Asimov’s writings, both the science fiction and the non-fiction work. The Lucky Starr juvenile science fiction, which I first read some fifty-five years ago, was great then and still enjoyable now.

⭐When I was much younger, the local public library had all the “Lucky Starr” books. I went through them in a rush one summer, like anything else in the science fiction canon I could find. And pretty promptly forgot about them. I came across the dust jacket art for “David Starr, Space Ranger” on the ‘net recently and thought of the series for the first time in years. Happily, like a lot of ancient midlist books, they’re available today as e-books so I bought “…and the Pirates of the Asteroids” because of a vague memory of a duel fought by two men in spacesuits armed with CO2 reaction pistols. (This was many years before Gemini astronauts tried using the same sort of gizmo for mobility during EVAs. It worked a lot better in the book.)Unfortunately, memory had improved the tale immensely. If you read these books as a kid, you’ll get a jolt of nostalgia reading them again. If you’re coming to them fresh… You have a lot better choices. They’re 1950s juveniles. The characters are flat. The villains twitch and ooze evil. The heroes are stalwart — and not that bright. Asimov’s writing style could kindly be described as “plain.”In later years, Asimov said that the science in “Pirates” had aged the least-badly of any of the “Space Ranger” books. I’m sure he was right but the book is still full of science and SF tropes that were creaky in the 1940s, if not the 1930s. The single world government. The “Council of Science” of really smart guys to help humanity over the rough spots. The “absolute zero cold” of outer space. Spacesuits made of inch-thick metal. As for the CO2 reaction pistols… *Sigh* Dr. Asimov seems never to have run across the concept of Reynolds numbers.It is what it is. I enjoyed re-reading “Pirates,” but mostly for the nostalgia. If you read these as a young’un, you’ll probably enjoy them again. Otherwise…(Production note: This may be the worst print-to-Kindle transfer I’ve ever seen. The producers obviously ran a hardcopy through a scanner and seem to have not even looked at the result. Page numbers and chapter titles float in the text. OCR errors abound and get worse as you progress. That’s disappointing, even for three bucks.)

⭐I have loved the Lucky Star Space Ranger stories by Isaac Asimov as a kid and I enjoyed them again as a Senior Citizen. They are a good read for young and old alike. I plan to give these books to my Grandchildren so that they can enjoy them too.

⭐In the 1950s Isaac Asimov wrote a series of six (I think) science fiction books for children called the Lucky Starr series. For whatever reason Asimov used the pen name Paul French, but the books were later republished under Asimov’s own name. Asimov strove to create plausible and action packed adventure stories. He also wanted his writings of space travel and planetary bodies to be factually correct and consistent with known science. In later editions he included a preface for each book to explain what aspects of scientific knowledge had changed in the intervening years and what factoids from that book are now known to be wrong. Asimov never dumbed down his books or condescended to his audience.Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is book 2 in the series. A group of pirates has taken refuge in the asteroid belt, making commerce and transport difficult for anyone trying to go past Mars into the outer solar system. The problem is that no one knows where in the asteroid belt the pirates have their base. Space Ranger Starr concocts a plan (against his superiors’ knowledge or wishes, kind of like James Bond) to fly to the asteroid belt and use his ship as bait to locate the pirate base and destroy it. Meanwhile he learns that the leader of the pirates is the man who killed his parents.”Pirates” is the first Starr book I ever read (even though it is #2 in the series), and I never read it until recently, as an adult. I had no problem understanding what was going on even without having read the first book. As an adult I find this book to be enjoyable light reading. Nothing special, but it is exciting and entertaining. Best of all Asimov never asks you to suspend disbelief and just go with it. He tries to make all of his books conform to the known universe, and this one is no exception.But Asimov wrote this book for children, and I think that is where it would really shine. I read a lot of adventure and science fiction stories as a kid – Tom Swift, Hardy Boys, Three Investigators, Choose Your Own Adventure, The Hobbit, and even a bit of Robert Heinlein. I think I would have loved the Lucky Starr books as a kid.

⭐Enjoyable story.

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