Barbary Station
Barbary StationR.E. Stearns
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Barbary Station (2017)

R.E. Stearns

Others: Mixed

"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

ISBN:
9781481476867
Length:
435 pages

Genres: science fiction

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Reviews1

Thoughts on Tomes
Mixed

I really liked the beginning of this. I liked up until they got to the pirate station and then there were so many side characters I didn't care about. The writing is super dry and like technical so there's a lot of things going on with like the space station and how these women are trying to like fix things about the space station and there's like so much focus on like technical things and repairs that they're doing that is just not interesting and I didn't really find there to be a very compelling dynamic even between the two characters.