About book Lucky Starr And The Moons Of Jupiter (1978)
The world of Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr is a young science geek's wildest dream come true. Imagine: a thousand years from now, the solar system's secret agents and protectors of the weak are...scientists! —Who don't mind showing off what they know!Dr. Asimov often lamented the pernicious and ever-growing current of anti-intellectualism in American society. Was his series of young-adult Lucky Starr novels merely the public expression of an escapist fantasy universe, or did he intend to win young, intelligent minds to scientific inquiry by showing just how cool science could be?In the fifth adventure of the Lucky Starr series, Starr and his spunky sidekick visit top-secret Project Agrav, based on Jupiter IX , to control gravity by storing potential energy. The potential benefits of the technology are enormous, since a spaceship equipped with Agrav could skim the atmospheres of the giant planets without fear of being trapped forever in their mighty gravitational embrace. However, a Sirian spy working on the project threatens the project's secrecy and its very success. Can Lucky and Bigman identify and capture the spy before he—or it—can sabotage the first flight to Jupiter's innermost satellite?At one time, Moons of Jupiter was perhaps my favorite novel in the series, but perhaps too much of my fascination with the story centered on the Agrav technology, since I know consider it one of the weaker ones. Here, a crucial story element hinges on several highly unlikely events surrounding the moon Amalthea (sorry—I can't be more specific without spoilers) that stretched my credulity just a little too far.It seems that each Lucky Starr book contains one glaring factual error thought to be correct when the book was written, which the author later acknowledged and regretted. (The errors don't detract in the least from the stories as exciting adventures, of course.) Dr. Asimov lived to see the moon Io revealed as a tortured, sulfurous hell, home to lakes of liquid sulfur and volcanoes spouting a hundred miles into space. Hardly a desirable destination for a space picnic! Another, minor mistake is that Asimov erroneously called Jupiter IX "Adrastea," actually the unofficial name of Jupiter XII. (Jupiter IX was given the name Sinope, but not until 1975.)
Tras mi reciente mudanza he sacado del trastero todos mis libros infantiles y juveniles (Hollister, tres investigadores, Elige tu propia aventura...), y descubrí que de las novelas de Lucky Starr me faltaban dos, que procedí a encargar de urgencia y leer ávidamente. En las lunas de Júpiter Lucky Starr debe contribuir al desarrollo de la tecnología terrestre para evitar una guerra con humanos de otros sistema estelar. Se nos habla de la gravedad y la composición atmosférica de Júpiter, de sus lunas, y de cómo sería el funcionamiento de un hipotético sistema antigravitatorio. Genial introducción a la ciencia para niños.
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This was another quick read (don't tell anyone but it was so quick i was able to read it while I was supposed to be doing other things this morning) but I will admit that this was not as good as the previous books in the series - yes it shows it age (it was written in the 50s after all) so you have to take in to account the era it was written in after all. For example you have the social -political landscape to consider - women generally in literature were little more than plot devices and two dimensional, scientists were both revered and distrusted in equal parts and the world was becoming more and more aware of political tensions - so to write a book where the future is more optimistic you do have an uphill struggle.That said Asimov always tells a great story and with a few considerations this is another great tale from him (yes you have to make some allowances and in this one I feel one or two more than usual) but still I did enjoy it - certainly enough to see me to the end of the series
—Andrew
