The Adventures of Lucky Starr

In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov (writing under the pseudonym Paul French) produced six novels that have been favorites with young readers ever since. Recounting the early career of David "Lucky" Starr -- youngest member of Earth's Council of Science -- each novel is an adventure set in a different part of the solar system, and each reads with all the fascination of a topflight detective story, as Lucky (and the reader) solves a deftly conceived puzzle.Featuring a new introduction by Asimov, this omnibus contains the first three Lucky Starr books together for the first DAVID STARR -- SPACE RANGER describes the beginning of Lucky's how he went to Mars to seek out the source of the poison in Martian foodstuffs reaching Earth...how he acquired certain special powers...and how he came to have a feisty Martian sidekick known as John Bigman Jones.In LUCKY STARR AND THE PIRATES OF THE ASTEROIDS, Lucky stows away on a robot ship in an attempt to join the pirates and work against them under cover. Lucky's plan doesn't quite work, but he does discover that the pirates have the backing of Earth's archenemies, the Sirians. It will take a desperate dash across the solar system -- with a perilous shortcut right past the Sun -- to thwart their evil schemes.In LUCY STARR AND THE OCEANS OF VENUS, Lucky must go to that planet to save an academy classmate from a charge of treason. Starr can't believe his friend is a criminal and a traitor to the Council, and he's right. The true culprit is far more dangerous enough to threaten all human life on Venus.