How I Wish I Was in Sherbrooke Now
Barbary Station (Shieldrunner Pirates, volume 1)
By R. E. Stearns
11 Dec, 2017
Space Opera That Doesn't Suck
2017’s Barbary Station is the first book in R. E. Stearns’ Shieldrunner Pirates series.
Faced with crushing debt and poor employment prospects, two women in love plan to hijack a large, expensive space ship and use it to buy their way into the pirate gang currently in possession of the so-called Barbary Station. Thelma and Louise, in SPAAACE.
Adda and Iridian’s scheme is such a simple, straight forward plan it’s hard to see how it could possibly go wrong. Indeed, it works almost perfectly until the pair and their hapless, expendable ally arrive at the station, whereupon their helper is shot dead and the two women learn they have made a slight miscalculation.