Barbary Station

Name: Barbary Station
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: R.E. Stearns
ISBN: 9781501940828

Author: R.E. Stearns

Series: Shieldrunner Pirates #1

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 14 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/31/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates-only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew-and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren't able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive there, nothing is as expected. The pirates aren't living in luxury-they're hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station's exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station's security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents and shooting down any ship that attempts to leave-so there's no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the AI met an untimely end, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. There's a glorious future in piracy.if only they can survive long enough.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gavin on April 02, 2018

Barbary Station was one of those weird books where the blurb was just so awesome that I had super high expectations for the book despite the fact that I'd seen zero hype for it anywhere! The story had the potential to be absolutely fantastic. Adda and Iridian, engineers, hijack a spaceship and rush......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 04, 2017

Barbary Station, the debut novel from R.E. Stearns, is the story of Adda and Iridian – two deeply in love engineers who desperately want to become space pirates (!?!) – who hatch a plan to join an infamous crew that recently hijacked the titular space station. Once they arrive at their destination t......more

Goodreads review by thefourthvine on March 11, 2018

This is a story about two women in love who decide to become space pirates, and then discover they have to take control of a scary AI to achieve their piracy dreams. In other words, I should have adored this. I should have eaten it up with a spoon. I did not. The thing is, there is a good book hiding......more

Goodreads review by Lucille on November 15, 2017

Since there were so few reviews out I was a bit anxious about this book, but I’d also been excited about it ever since it was announced last December and it sounded so promising (come on, who wouldn’t be very hyped for a book pitched as “lesbians of colour space pirate vs rogue AI”??) that I thought......more

Goodreads review by Devann on August 03, 2019

on the one hand: LESBIAN ❤ SPACE ❤ PIRATES ❤ on the other hand: ??????????????????????????? Normally I would think the fact that I had only the barest grasp of what was going for most of this novel would be a personal shortcoming on my part, but it seems like a lot of other readers had the same proble......more