#pirate sci fi

[brownwoodship]

Hey, you have just found a chest on a desolate planet

Open it>>>>

Your Loot:

[alphamecha-mkii]

Sky Pirates of Callisto by Bruce Pennington

[elliottkay]

Every show and film and book I grew up with presented the military as a place where you’d find yourself. The military could be good, could be bad, and all that “glory�� stuff was clearly nonsense… but shared trials made you stronger and forged ride-or-die buddies for life. And hey, it’d pay for college.

Then I joined. It didn’t work out. Every day ranged from tedious to toxic, even when we did genuine good. I made one short-term friend in four years.

I still loved those stories, but none of them were ever about the guy who joins up and doesn’t find himself and never belongs—so I wrote it.

Poor Man’s Fight is a rockin’ space opera built on shattered dreams, student debt, and space pirates. Lots of space pirates. It’s funny, it’s sober, and you’ll want to hug Tanner Malone even when he’s covered in blood. The real enemies are always capitalism and toxic masculinity.

And then comes the war with the corporations that built this whole dystopia, because the enemy is still capitalism, even for the aliens.

On a brighter note, Tanner does make it out of the military and into college, becoming the Deadliest Unpaid Intern in the Galaxy… and the Resident Advisor for a freshman dorm full of chaos goblins.

(Cover art by Lee Moyer, Julie Dillon, Dan Watson, and Brittany Torres, for which I’m forever grateful.)

If you’ve made it this far, hopefully you’re looking for where to pick this up. They’re all available on ebook and Kindle Unlimited, and everything from Poor Man’s Fight to Last Man Out is also in paperback and audio.

And bonus: they’re cheap!

[oldschoolfrp]

Space merchants, or pirates, depending on what's in the cargo hold today (Tim Truman, from the game Star Trader included in Ares magazine #12, SPI, January 1982)

[scottvansketches]

[baldy-wan-kenobi]

You know, the most exciting thing to me about space travel isn't the scientific wonder, the hope of alien life, or any of those other sci-fi dreams.

No, the true benefit of the ever-expanding frontier of space exploration is the dawn of a neverending Second Golden Age of Piracy.

[balrog-slayer66]

Promotional artwork for "Space Pirate Captain Harlock," illustrated by creator Leiji Matsumoto for the anime series produced by Toei Animation.

[shadefish]

March Of Robots Lancer Edition

Day 8

Privateer Sunzi

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[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Sci fi story where 31st century scientists replicated/cloned 17th century sailors, because they were considered to be the demographic most likely to undergo the ridiculous hardships and horrible dangers of space travel, for bare minimum wage and little chance of making it back alive.

The whole thing immediately backfires worse than Jurassic Park, because it turns out that 17th century sailors are also the demographic most likely to become pirates at the first opportunity.

[brownwoodship]

Venturing into the unknown

[alphamecha-mkii]

Falling Frontier - Pirate Gunship by Varzov

[sapphicstrawb3rry]

The Abyss Surrounds Us 🦈⛴🌊🖤 by Emily Skrutskie (Book #1)

"But she underestimated me. I played my cards, I lay in wait, I let myself be beaten and manipulated. If she keeps that promise she made to me, I’ll show her the truth I’ve learned on her boat. I don’t just raise monsters. I am one."

One of the first sapphic YA books I ever read and maybe one of my favourites! A dystopian sci-fi coming-of-age series with genetically-engineered sea monsters, pirates, gripping action sequences and a complex romance. Skrutskie’s prose is so immersive and consuming in the way it subtly brings you into the fold, not just of the marine-pacific new world order she has created, but also of the moral ambiguities that arise in all her distinct characters. Absolutely loved reading about Cas’ unique role, her tumultuous bond with the reckoners she trains, her clashes with Swift and her grappling to stay afloat under the manipulative games of pirate matriarch Santa Elena.

Most wonderful of all probably is the series’ subversive underlying message on building a relationship on equal footing of power, with Cas coming into her own, realising her ambitions. Tbh it’s a good and important reprieve from many sapphic novels that romanticise dynamics of uneven power play, though they have their own existential neuroses and reasons for being the way they are. The plot twist in this novel was, to say the least, totally unexpected and I loved it. Book 2 moodboard coming soon! ❤︎₊ ⊹

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Galaxy Jane - art by Boris Vallejo (1985)

[oldschoolfrp]

Star Trader, the game of interstellar exploitation and piracy -- Tim Truman cover art for Ares 12, SPI, January 1982, which included the complete sci-fi board game designed by Nick Karp. David J Ritchie contributed the article "Adventures in Albion, Role-Playing in the Land of Faerie," exploring how to build an RPG campaign for DragonQuest in the setting of his board game Albion from the previous issue.

[scottvansketches]