Special thanks to my parents and family, for their unequivocal encouragement and especially to my husband, Greg: thank you for following me on this literary adventure and for all the things you do to make it possible.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R. E. STEARNS wrote her first story on an Apple IIe computer and still kind of misses green text on a black screen. She went on to annoy all her teachers by reading books while they lectured. Eventually she read and wrote enough to earn a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Central Florida. She is hoping for an honorary doctorate. When not writing or working, R. E. Stearns reads, plays PC games, and references Internet memes in meatspace. She lives near Orlando, Florida, with her computer engineer husband and a cat.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stearns, R. E., 1983– author.
Title: Barbary Station / R. E. Stearns.
Description: First edition. | New York : Saga Press, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017004755 | ISBN 9781481476874 (softcover) | ISBN 9781481476867 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481476881 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Artificial intelligence—Fiction. | Space stations—Fiction. | Pirates—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera. | FICTION / Science Fiction / High Tech. | FICTION / Action & Adventure. | GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3619.T427 B37 2017 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004755
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