Lucky Starr 6 - The Rings of Saturn by Isaac Asimov

Author:Isaac Asimov
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-06-17T18:30:00+00:00

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ISAAC ASIMOV

writing as Paul French

LUCKY STARRand THE RINGS OF SATURNFAWCETT CREST · NEW YORKLUCKY STARR AND THE RINGS OF SATURNTHIS BOOK CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL HARDCOVER EDITION.Published by Fawcett Crest Books, a unit of CBS Publications, the Consumer Publishing Division of CBS Inc., by arrangement with Doubleday and Company, Inc.Copyright © 1958 by Doubleday and Company, Inc. Preface Copyright © 1978 by Isaac Asimov ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ISBN: 0-449-23462-2All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.Printed in the United States of America 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

CONTENTSThe Invaders 9Pursuit 17Death in the Rings 29Between Jupiter and Saturn 39Skimming Saturn's Surface 49Through the Gap 59On Mimas 69To Titan 79The Enemy 91Servicemen and Robots 103Bigman against All 115Surrender 125Prelude to Vesta 135On Vesta 145The Conference 155Biter Bit 165

DEDICATIONTo the memory of Henry Kuttnerand Cyril Kombluth

PrefaceBack in the 1950s, I wrote a series of six derring-do novels about David "Lucky" Starr and his battles against malefactors within the Solar System. Each of the six took place in a different region of the system, and in each case I made use of the astronomical facts—as they were then known.Now, a quarter-century later, Fawcett is bringing out the novels in new editions; but what a quarter-century it has been! More has been learned about the worlds of our Solar System hi this last quarter-century than in all the thousands of years that went before.LUCKY STARR AND THE RINGS OF SATURN was written in 1957, but in 1967, a French astronomer, Audouin Dollfus, discovered a tenth satellite of Saturn, one that was closer to the planet than any of the others, 22,000 miles closer to Saturn than Mimas is. This new satellite has been named Janus.If I were writing the book today, I would certainly mention that satellite and I might have used it instead of Mimas.Moreover, it was not until 1977 that astronomers discovered that Saturn was not the only ringed planet. Uranus, it turns out, also has rings. They are very thin rings and very faint ones—but they're there. I8 would surely have mentioned that in this book if I were writing it today.I hope my Gentle Readers enjoy the book anyway, as an adventure story, but please don't forget that the advance of science can outdate even the most conscientious science-fiction writer and that my astro nomical descriptions are no longer accurate in all respects.

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The InvadersThe Sun was a brilliant diamond in the sky, just large enough to the naked eye to be made out as something more than a star; as a tiny white-hot pea-sized globe.Out here in the vastness of space, near the second largest planet of the Solar System, the Sun gave out only one per cent of the light it cast on man's home planet. It was still, however, the brightest object in the sky, as four thousand full Moons would be.Lucky Starr gazed thoughtfully at the visiplate which centered the image of the distant Sun.

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