Barbary Station

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Barbary Station is loaded with levels of space pirate action few books could hope to match, delivered in a way you’ve never experienced before. R.E. Stearns’ debut hits the ground running, introducing us to our coupled protagonists, engineers/lovers Adda and Iridian, as they awaken in transit to the titular station onboard the Prosperity Dawn, a […]

To quote Douglas Adams, “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Considering we already routinely get lost just driving to a new city—even with the benefit of a tiny AI giving us directions—there’s no questioning that once humans have reached the point that we’re actually traveling […]

As a genre, science fiction succeeds, in part, because it can be so many things to so many different people. For the liberal-minded, sci-fi, and space opera in particular, offer both hope, in the form of of far-future technological utopias, and dire warnings about the dangers of backward-thinking. Yet in the realm of gender and […]