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Originally Posted by gojisube
Now I didn't know that Lucky Starr was intended to be a TV show. I've been reading the Lucky Starr books for the first time over the past couple of months, and have been finding them enjoyable.
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I thought most editions had the story explaining why he used a pseudonym on the series. Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Starr_series
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On 23 March 1951, Asimov met with his agent, Frederik Pohl, and Walter I. Bradbury, then the science fiction editor at Doubleday & Co., who had a proposal for him. Pohl and Bradbury wanted Asimov to write a juvenile science fiction novel that would serve as the basis for a television series. Fearing that the novel would be adapted into the "uniformly awful" programming he saw flooding the television channels,[1] he decided to publish it under the pseudonym "Paul French". Asimov began work on the novel, David Starr: Space Ranger, on 10 June. He completed it on 29 July, and it was published by Doubleday in January 1952. Although plans for the television series fell through, Asimov continued to write novels in the series, eventually producing six. A seventh, Lucky Starr and the Snows of Pluto, was planned, but abandoned when Asimov elected to devote himself to writing non-fiction almost exclusively. With no worries about being associated with an embarrassing televised version, Asimov decided to abandon the pretense that he was not the author (although the books continued to be published under the Paul French pseudonym). He brought the Three Laws of Robotics into Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, which he wrote in his autobiography "was a dead giveaway to Paul French's identity for even the most casual reader".[2]
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Even at his worst, Asimov was always readable, from MAROONED OFF VESTA to his posthumous works.