If you loved how Lucky Starr turns a personal vendetta against the Asteroid pirates into a daring, system-wide chase — infiltrating hidden bases and pulling off tight, technical escapes — you’ll click with Kip Russell’s rocket-ride in Have Space Suit—Will Travel. Kip starts with a spacesuit and ends up navigating kidnappers, alien courts, and a last-ditch plan to save Earth, all with the same resourceful, quick-thinking hustle Lucky shows when he goes undercover and outwits pirate traps.

The way Lucky follows clues through the Belt, unmasks moles near the Council of Science, and turns a pirate hunt into a full-on investigation pairs perfectly with The Caves of Steel. Detective Elijah Baley and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw pick through political feuds and secret agendas to solve a murder. If the cat-and-mouse sleuthing that led Lucky from an asteroid hideout to a traitor’s reveal hooked you, Baley’s case will scratch the same itch — but as a classic SF mystery.

Part of the fun in Pirates of the Asteroids is how tight piloting, vacuum survival, and orbital trickery make or break Lucky’s undercover gambits and asteroid chases. Mission of Gravity pushes that love of real constraints even further: every decision on the ultra-high-gravity world Mesklin hinges on physics. If Lucky’s precision space maneuvers and airless standoffs thrilled you, Clement’s meticulous world and nail-biting logistics will feel like the next level.

If what grabbed you was Lucky’s fast-and-clever playbook — slipping into a pirate stronghold, juggling fake identities, wriggling out of zero-g ambushes, and turning traps inside out — The Stainless Steel Rat delivers that velocity in spades. Slippery Jim DiGriz lives on cons, infiltrations, and last-second pivots, racing through set pieces with the same quick-draw audacity Lucky uses to outfox pirate captains.

Lucky’s daring gambits — from bluffing his way into pirate ranks to orchestrating escapes in the Belt — echo in Miles Vorkosigan’s breathless rise in The Warrior’s Apprentice. Miles improvises a mercenary command out of thin air and bluffs through battles with the same nerve and brain-over-brawn style that let Lucky turn an asteroid den into his playground. If the big, gutsy space action hooked you, this delivers it with wit and heart.