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* ExactWords: In one book, an important plot point is [[spoiler:that a spaceship in orbit around a planet is said, by an incomplete transmission received from it, to be in a "normal" orbit -- which is taken to mean "standard", around the planet's equator. The ship cannot be found until it is realised that "normal" was actually used in the geometric sense -- "perpendicular", a polar orbit.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: One Sirian villain tries to get a three-laws-compliant robot to kill Bigman by persuading the robot that Bigman isn't a human: after all, he's noticeably smaller than any Sirian! The robot never before saw an Earth human, so it almost works.
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* DeliciousDistractionDeliciousDistraction: In ''Oceans of Venus'', [[spoiler:Lucky realizes that the V-frogs seem particularly attracted to petroleum-derived products due to their relative oxygen deficiency. It is this which allows him to break their mental hold at two key points in the story.]]
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* OutdatedFuture: The Zeerust is pretty obvious when it comes to the computers that are available in the series. A specialized computer man has to prepare input in the form of paper tape in ''Moons of Jupiter''. In ''Oceans of Venus'', A a technical officer in charge of the maintenance of the dome (of the city of Aphrodite) as a whole has a portable computer that weighs sbout about 25 pounds. [[spoiler:Even allowing for the specialized apparatus hidden in it to control the V-frogs, modern miniaturization would almost certainly have cut that weight down to a more manageable amount, plus made the computer itself less bulky.]]
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* OutdatedFuture: The Zeerust is pretty obvious when it comes to the computers that are available in the series. A specialized computer man has to prepare input in the form of paper tape in ''Moons of Jupiter''. In ''Oceans of Venus'', A technical officer in charge of the maintenance of the dome (of the city of Aphrodite) as a whole has a portable computer that weighs sbout 25 pounds. [[spoiler:Even allowing for the specialized apparatus hidden in it to control the V-frogs, modern miniaturization would almost certainly have cut that weight down to a more manageable amount, plus made the computer itself less bulky.]]
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* OutdatedFuture: The Zeerust is pretty obvious when it comes to the computers that are available in the series. A specialized computer man has to prepare input in the form of paper tape in ''Moons of Jupiter''. A technical officer in charge of the maintenance of the dome as a whole has a portable computer that weighs sbout 25 pounds. [[spoiler:Even allowing for the specialized apparatus hidden in it to control the V-frogs, modern miniaturization would almost certainly have cut that weight down to a more manageable amount, plus made the computer itself less bulky.]]
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StellarName: "Starr".
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*ArtificialGravityArtificialGravity: "Pseudo-grav" is a common Asimovian term used in the series, and in ''Big Sun of Mercury'', [[spoiler:it becomes an important part of the plot due to Bigman realizing that one character was able to anticipate a sudden gravity change, thus proving that he deliberately changed the field strength.]]
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WeWouldHaveToldYouBut: Most commonly used with Bigman, because he doesn't always control his temper and could blab.
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WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: Asimov wrote forewords to his novels, which [[{{Irony}} are now themselves somewhat out of date.]] But at least he recognized that ScienceMarchesOn and wanted to avoid having the readers of his novels get confused.
*YouRemindMeOfXYouRemindMeOfX: Very sparingly referred to ordinarily as to his descent from his father and mother, but [[spoiler:it becomes a crucial revelation of the true nature of a character in ''Pirates of the Asteroids'' due to Lucky catching on to a peculiar aspect of the remembrance.]]
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*NiceShoesNiceShoes: On Mars, men (and presumably, women) wear hip-boots of the most riotous possible color combinations. In an aversion, Lucky wears relatively plain ones and gets a ribbing for it from Bigman.
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*TheHypnotoadTheHypnotoad: [[spoiler:The V-frogs on Venus have empathic and telepathic abilities. Without human influence to concentrate this ability, it is primarily instinctively used by V-frogs to activate emotions of trust and kindness towards them. With human aid, however, it is possible to read and influence minds.]]
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* HisNameIs: In the fourth book, a robot about to shut down says that it received its orders from - well, only one syllable is heard, but its enough to figure out he meant [[spoiler: "Earthman" - a project director who once visited its homeworld and stole the servant assigned to him.]]
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* SilentWhisper: In ''Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn'', Lucky and Wess take a moment to speak privately to one another by using ordinary sound waves, conducted through their spacesuits, so there is no risk of being spied upon. The narrator never tells us what Lucky says, but it becomes clear it has to do with the elaborate deception that Lucky pulls on everyone except Wess later in the book.
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Series of juvenile science-fiction novels by Creator/IsaacAsimov, written in the 1950s under the pseudonym Paul French. The series relates the adventures of David "Lucky" Starr, Councilman of Earth's Council of Science, and his battles against crime and corruption in different regions of the Solar System. He is accompanied by loyal sidekick John Bigman Jones, whose short height and shorter temper contrast him with the tall, cool-headed hero.
[[AC:The series comprises six volumes:]]
* ''David Starr, Space Ranger''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn''
In his adventures, Lucky faces off against unusual alien organisms and hostile space environments as well as ordinary human sabotage. The predominating threat throughout comes from Earth's rivals in the system of Sirius, who, although descended from Earthmen, think themselves superior and show signs of wanting to take over Earth's Solar System. The stories usually have an element of mystery as well as adventure, with Lucky having to find a criminal hidden in plain sight, and, in true Asimov fashion, the solution can hang on the tiniest point.
The ''Lucky Starr'' series was written explicitly with the purpose of teaching young people facts about the solar system, which means that it suffers from ScienceMarchesOn perhaps more than the rest of Asimov's work--the title ''Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus'' should be a clue as to how inaccurate it sometimes gets. Nevertheless, the books are still very enjoyable as science-fiction adventures.
Not to be confused with the anime ''Manga/LuckyStar''.
The first books were also marketed to Hollywood, as the basis for a TV series, which is why Asimov went with the pseudonym. He had seen how Hollywood tended to butcher the works of other SF writers, and wanted to be able to disassociate himself from any resulting series, if he had to. After the TV idea fell through, he started added elements to the later books that clearly labelled him as the author (such as three-laws robots with positronic brains.)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AirVentPassageway
* ArtificialGravity
* AwesomeMcCoolname
* DeflectorShields
* DeliciousDistraction
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first book, Starr encounters an ancient race of Martians who give him a personal force field and dub him "Space Ranger". It was obviously intended as a hero origin story, but all the later books became more of a series of detective novels [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]. He's never called "Space Ranger" again and hardly ever uses the force field.
* EscapePod
* FutureFoodIsArtificial
* FutureSlang: Sands of Mars! Great Galaxy! Space!
* LaserBlade: TropeMaker, surprisingly enough.
* GaggingOnYourWords
* GoToAlias: Lucky uses "William Williams". Or "Dick Williams".
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Council of Science
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Hector Conway and Augustus Henree.
--> Neither Henree nor [Conway] had ever married, and for neither were there any girls to compete with Barbara in memory.
** Possibly also Lucky Starr and John Bigman Jones.
--> His years with Lucky had been happy, exciting ones. He had lived a full lifetime in them and had faced death without fear. He could face death now, also without fear.
* HonoraryUncle
* TheHypnotoad
* [[IronicNickname Ironic Middle Name]]
* ItIsDehumanizing
--> Devoure broke in, "We had an example here a while ago, the Councilman's companion. It infuriated and nauseated me merely to be in the same room with him; a monkey, a five-foot travesty of a human being, a lump of deformity… "
* TheNapoleon
* NiceShoes
* NoGravityForYou: Inverted in one story, where a character is killed because Earth-like gravity was activated at exactly the wrong moment.
* OutdatedFuture
* PunnyName: Lucky, of course, but also his spaceship, the ''Shooting Starr''.
* PlanetOfHats: Almost literally--Martian farm boys all wear garish hip boots, while Venusian men all have moustaches.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Bigman.
* RecklessSidekick: Bigman again.
* RuleOfCool: In ''David Starr, Space Ranger'', there is a fancy restaurant with tables made out of force fields. Why? Because they're so easy to clean, of course... yeah, right.
* ScienceMarchesOn: To such an extent that the 1970s reprintings included new introductions by Asimov enumerating all the newly-discovered astronomical facts that contradict the books' descriptions.
* ShownTheirWork: It is by Creator/IsaacAsimov, after all.
* SocietyMarchesOn
* SpacePirates
* SpaceX: The V-frogs.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: We will all use ''microfilm'' in the future.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Asimovian robots appear in ''Moons of Jupiter'' and ''Rings of Saturn''.
* TrickedOutShoes
* UnderwaterCity
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* UnusualEuphemism: "To Sun-center with the Sirian cobbers!"
* WeWouldHaveToldYouBut
* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue
* YouRemindMeOfX
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[[AC:The series comprises six volumes:]]
* ''David Starr, Space Ranger''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter''
* ''Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn''
In his adventures, Lucky faces off against unusual alien organisms and hostile space environments as well as ordinary human sabotage. The predominating threat throughout comes from Earth's rivals in the system of Sirius, who, although descended from Earthmen, think themselves superior and show signs of wanting to take over Earth's Solar System. The stories usually have an element of mystery as well as adventure, with Lucky having to find a criminal hidden in plain sight, and, in true Asimov fashion, the solution can hang on the tiniest point.
The ''Lucky Starr'' series was written explicitly with the purpose of teaching young people facts about the solar system, which means that it suffers from ScienceMarchesOn perhaps more than the rest of Asimov's work--the title ''Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus'' should be a clue as to how inaccurate it sometimes gets. Nevertheless, the books are still very enjoyable as science-fiction adventures.
Not to be confused with the anime ''Manga/LuckyStar''.
The first books were also marketed to Hollywood, as the basis for a TV series, which is why Asimov went with the pseudonym. He had seen how Hollywood tended to butcher the works of other SF writers, and wanted to be able to disassociate himself from any resulting series, if he had to. After the TV idea fell through, he started added elements to the later books that clearly labelled him as the author (such as three-laws robots with positronic brains.)
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AirVentPassageway
* ArtificialGravity
* AwesomeMcCoolname
* DeflectorShields
* DeliciousDistraction
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first book, Starr encounters an ancient race of Martians who give him a personal force field and dub him "Space Ranger". It was obviously intended as a hero origin story, but all the later books became more of a series of detective novels [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]. He's never called "Space Ranger" again and hardly ever uses the force field.
* EscapePod
* FutureFoodIsArtificial
* FutureSlang: Sands of Mars! Great Galaxy! Space!
* LaserBlade: TropeMaker, surprisingly enough.
* GaggingOnYourWords
* GoToAlias: Lucky uses "William Williams". Or "Dick Williams".
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The Council of Science
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Hector Conway and Augustus Henree.
--> Neither Henree nor [Conway] had ever married, and for neither were there any girls to compete with Barbara in memory.
** Possibly also Lucky Starr and John Bigman Jones.
--> His years with Lucky had been happy, exciting ones. He had lived a full lifetime in them and had faced death without fear. He could face death now, also without fear.
* HonoraryUncle
* TheHypnotoad
* [[IronicNickname Ironic Middle Name]]
* ItIsDehumanizing
--> Devoure broke in, "We had an example here a while ago, the Councilman's companion. It infuriated and nauseated me merely to be in the same room with him; a monkey, a five-foot travesty of a human being, a lump of deformity… "
* TheNapoleon
* NiceShoes
* NoGravityForYou: Inverted in one story, where a character is killed because Earth-like gravity was activated at exactly the wrong moment.
* OutdatedFuture
* PunnyName: Lucky, of course, but also his spaceship, the ''Shooting Starr''.
* PlanetOfHats: Almost literally--Martian farm boys all wear garish hip boots, while Venusian men all have moustaches.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Bigman.
* RecklessSidekick: Bigman again.
* RuleOfCool: In ''David Starr, Space Ranger'', there is a fancy restaurant with tables made out of force fields. Why? Because they're so easy to clean, of course... yeah, right.
* ScienceMarchesOn: To such an extent that the 1970s reprintings included new introductions by Asimov enumerating all the newly-discovered astronomical facts that contradict the books' descriptions.
* ShownTheirWork: It is by Creator/IsaacAsimov, after all.
* SocietyMarchesOn
* SpacePirates
* SpaceX: The V-frogs.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: We will all use ''microfilm'' in the future.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Asimovian robots appear in ''Moons of Jupiter'' and ''Rings of Saturn''.
* TrickedOutShoes
* UnderwaterCity
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* UnusualEuphemism: "To Sun-center with the Sirian cobbers!"
* WeWouldHaveToldYouBut
* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue
* YouRemindMeOfX
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