Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (The Lucky Starr Series) - Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. First edition thus. A tight, square copy with little wear, very light foxing on the top edge in a dust jacket with wear at the edges, some rubbing at the hinges, and a small crease at the bottom of the back side in a removable Bodart mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 003009
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Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (The Lucky Starr Series)
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Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
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ISBN 10: 0839824874
ISBN 13: 9780839824879
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wayne Barlow (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. Asimov was 58 years old when these 188 pages were published. This is volume 2 in a series by Asimov. UNillustrated. It is from the `rocket-blaster' era of sci-fi. The premise here is that cargo ships from earth are being harassed by space pirates. Lucky Starr and scientific wisdom MUST put an ensd to that nonsense. Cond : Boards are grey with black lettering. End-papers are red. D.J. is black with yellow lettering. Cover illustration shows Lucky and a comrade - perhaps Bigman - weapons at hand looking out for trouble. Volume is brilliantly clean and tight and collectible. D.J. is VG with slight wear at all edges. No missing pieces. Both are bright. No names, nor marks. Collectible vintage sci-fi. Quote (p. 99) : " Co-rdinates of the various bodies in the Galaxy were the lifeblood of space travel. They fulfilled the same function that lines of latitude and longitude did on the two-dimensional surface of a planet. However, since ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 008364
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition thus. Hardcover With A Dust Jacket. Pages The Index. Hardcover. First Edition Stated On The Copyright Page. Gregg Press 1978.books are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Seller Inventory # 037358
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Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wayne Barlowe (Jacket art) (illustrator). The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8,25 inches. vi, [7] 14-188, [4] pages. The illustrated dust jacket has some wear and soiling. This is the second volume of the six volume The Lucky Starr Series and contains a new Preface by the author! Starr uncovers a Martian plot to ruin the economy of the earth's galactic colonies. Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. From 1942 to 1945 during World War II, between his masters and doctoral studies, Asimov worked as a civilian chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. ISAAC ASIMOV was one of the great science-fiction writers of our time. Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids is the second novel in the Lucky Starr series, six young reader science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company. A year has passed since the events in David Starr, Space Ranger. In that time the spaceship TSS Waltham Zachary has been taken by pirates based in the asteroid belt. Because David "Lucky" Starr harbors a personal dislike of the pirates for their murder of his parents, he has devised a plan whereby the unmanned survey ship Atlas, as soon as the pirates capture it and bring it to their hidden base, will explode. Starr has leaked the plan to the pirates and sneaked aboard the ship, believing an infiltration will be a more efficient way to bring down the pirates. When captured, Starr tells the pirate leader, Captain Anton, that his name is Williams and offers to join the pirates; whereupon Anton has Starr fight a duel to prove himself worthy. Starr wins the duel, but remains a prisoner aboard Atlas while it is brought to an asteroid. The asteroid is home to a hermit named Joseph Patrick Hansen, and the pirates leave Starr in Hansen's care. Hansen recognizes him as Lawrence Starr's son. Starr admits his identity, and Hansen convinces him to pilot them to Ceres. On Ceres, Starr plans to send his friend Bigman to infiltrate the pirates, but realizes that Hansen's asteroid is not where it should be. Starr and Bigman take their own spaceship Shooting Starr to search for it and eventually land on its surface, where Starr is captured by Dingo, the pirate he beat in the duel. Dingo takes him inside the asteroid, revealing a hyperatomic engine used to move it. A fight with Dingo ends when Starr is struck with a neuronic whip and loses consciousness. Starr wakes to find himself in a spacesuit on the asteroid; whereupon Dingo straps him to a catapult and flings him into space. He uses his oxygen reserve to reverse his course and return to the asteroid, where he and Bigman defeat some of the pirates. They learn that a pirate fleet is attacking Ceres. Starr realizes that the pirates' real object was to capture Hansen, which they have accomplished, and learns that Captain Anton's ship is taking Hansen to a secret Sirian base on Ganymede, whence the Sirians plan to attack Earth while Earth's fleet is occupied fighting the pirates in the Asteroid Belt. When Anton makes for Ganymede, Starr threatens to ram his ship, and accelerates toward it, all the while talking to Anton. The ships are ten miles apart when Hansen kills Anton and orders Anton's crew to surrender to Starr. When the Terran fleet arrives to take custody of the pirate ship, Starr convinces the commanding admiral to concentrate on the asteroid pirates and leave the Sirian base on Ganymede alone, revealing that Hansen is the leader of the asteroid pirates. It is then revealed that while Starr was intercepting Anton's ship, the Council of Science, on Starr's orders, captured the base and achieved the wherewithal to terminate the asteroid piracy. Hansen is coerced to have the Sirians leave Ganymede, and is sent to incarceration on Mercury. Hansen claimed to have met David's father, but didn't recognize his two close friends and claimed that David resembles his father the most when he is angry, despite Lawrence hardly ever being in that state. From that, David states that within an hour after meeting Hansen, he knew he was facing his parents' murderer. Writing in The New York Times, Sidney Lohman praised Pirates as "grand science fiction for all ages." Groff Conklin described the novel as "almost entirely conceived in the straight gee-whiz adventure technique that is the classical pattern for adventure stories". P. Schuyler Miller described it as "fast-moving space opera of a type we all know." Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids introduces the Sirians as the main threat to Earth, and marks Starr's transformation from his masked crime-fighter role of the first novel to a Cold War-like secret agent. First Printing thus [Stated]--this is a reprint of the first edition published by Doubleday. Seller Inventory # 90029
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Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (The Lucky Starr Series)
Published by
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ISBN 10: 0839824874
ISBN 13: 9780839824879
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