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Barbary Station
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Lindsay
Dec 27, 2016 rated it it was ok
Adda and Iridian are a couple who have decided that the only way that they can be together in a severely depressed post-war Solar System is to join a group of space pirates. Adda is a gifted software engineer/hacker and Iridian is an ex-soldier who has trained as a mechanical engineer. Together they hatch a scheme to hijack a colony ship and get the spoils to Barbary Station, where Captain Sloane and her pirate crew (including Adda's brother) are based. Only when they get there the situation at ...more
Lata
Dec 30, 2017 rated it it was ok
Despite the interesting concepts: piracy as a way to pay off student debts and to stay with one's significant other, killer AI terrorizing people on a space station, a committed and loving relationship between the main characters Adda and Iridian, different sides of a conflict having to work together to survive, good diversity in the characters, different kinds of AIs, I found this book was a slooooooow read. The author's style actually was a detriment to me enjoying this book. I find the text d ...more
Justine
Jan 08, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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