Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter

6 best books like Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter (Paul French): How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, The Currents of Space, Forward the Foundation, From the Earth to the Moon, Nightfall, Tales of the Black Widowers

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	1473680336

How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...

The Currents of Space

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553293419

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible....

Forward the Foundation

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553565079

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Here, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring...

From the Earth to the Moon

Author	Jules Verne
ISBN	1598184547

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had...

Nightfall

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0553290991

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one your suns start to set, gradually leading you into Darkness for the first time ever. Image the terror of such a Nightfall.

Scientists on the planet Kalgash discover...

Tales of the Black Widowers

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0449237885

There were six of them. Professional men and their waiter. They gather at the Milano Restaurant once a month for good food and good conversation. But lately the Black Widowers have added a new entertainment to their meetings. They have begun to solve mysteries, murders, and conspiracies of seemingly...