Muy divertido y entretenido, me ha gustado la experiencia

The 5th novel in the “Lucky Starr” series finds David “Lucky” Starr and his sidekick, John “Bigman” Jones (all 5’2” of him) on a mission to the moons of Jupiter to try and determine how a top-secret experimental technology is being sabotaged and stop it. Even though couched in a young adult science fiction package Asimov, as usual, provides a compelling adventure injected with a fair amount of astronomy and physics education.

At its core, this is a detective story, but it’s also more than that. Here, David Starr, as a Councilman (of the distinguished “Council of Science”) must ingratiate himself with a group of suspicious remote space station crew members, discover the identity of the saboteur, trick a robot, and keep his sidekick under control. No easy task among them. It was nice to see another aspect of Asimov’s “3 Laws of Robotics” in action. This has always been a compelling idea for me, especially when odd situations require unique interpretations of the laws by the robot in question.

This book is also quite dated. To see these space-faring people using punch cards, tape reels, and printers to decipher computer codes is fun for those of us who have lived through the stone age of computer technology but reading it now…well readers will need to forgive Mr. Asimov for not foreseeing the rapidity of such change to come.

All in all, a quick fun read just as the other Lucky Starr books have been.

Una nova entrega de la sèrie, la penúltima. Interessant però amb un final molt previsible des de la 1/2 del llibre i amb una explicació/justificació del mateix massa forçada :(

Great book. Unlike most of Asimov's other books, this one is mostly for children, but his writing is very entertaining in this genre too. Some things were a little illogical and some parts with astronomical descriptions seemed too educational while I prefer my books more psychological, but still it was a very nice adventure - I liked the mystery, I liked the characters, I liked the whole story.

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. Como novelas tienen más agujeros de guión que estrellas hay en el grupo galáctico local, pero siendo como son un fantástico acercamiento a la ciencia para niños y adolescentes, no podemos más que darles notaza.

Much like the other one of these I've just read, amusing and dated juvenile SF.

shoutout for vintage sci fi for giving me the serotonin that nothing else can!