Mutiny at Vesta

by R. E. Stearns

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  About the Author

  R. E. STEARNS is the author of Barbary Station, the first Shieldrunner Pirates novel. She 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 of 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 Denver, Colorado, with her computer engineer husband and a cat. You can visit her at restearns.com.

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  Text copyright © 2018 by R. E. Stearns

  Jacket illustrations copyright © 2018 by Martin Deschambeault

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Stearns, R. E., 1983– author.

  Title: Mutiny at Vesta / R. E. Stearns.

  Description: New York, NY : Saga Press, [2018] | Series: Shieldrunner Pirates ; 2

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017051746 | ISBN 9781481476904 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781481476898 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481476911 (eBook)

  Subjects: | GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | Science fiction.

  Classification: LCC PS3619.T427 M88 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017051746