#r.e. stearns

[teanderthalrex]

Alien: Romulus Book Recommendations

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes - A woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.

This World is Not Yours By Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Three friends on a new colony planet. There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.

Salvation Day by Kali Wallace. A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic thriller.

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their biggest threat; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on.

Contagion by Erin Bowman. After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.

Authors like Mur Lafferty, Tim Pratt, Peter Watts, J.S. Dewes, Caitling Starling, Sue Burton, and R.E. Stearns may have books that fit this theme that I just haven't read.

[owlbear33]

speaking of adult SSF novels, what do people recommend as good new sci-fi, particularly the more spacey end of things

recently I've enjoyed Murderbot (Martha Wells), the Imperial Radch trilogy (Ann Leckie), both the Indranan and Farian war trilogies (K.B Wagers), Barbary Pirates Trilogy (R.E. Stearns), The Wayfarers (Becky Chambers), Tanya Huffs Valour Novels, and I've been super getting into the expanse novels (James S.A. Corey)

so yeah what are other people enjoying

[ninja-muse]

Hi! For the bookish ask game: 🔮🙄🥺 <3

🔮 what book/series has your favorite magic system?

Hmm. For intricate magic system, the Rook and Rose books by M.A. Carrick, because half of it's based on sigils and half of it on tarot and I just find how that all works to be compelling. For simple magic system, the Discworld witches. You do magic mostly by being kind to others and occasionally by being very stubborn, and that seems like a great way to live a life.

🙄 what’s a popular book that you dislike, but you’ll get crucified if you say it?

It might've been my age when I was reading it but I did not connect with Wizard of Earthsea at all. :(

🥺 what’s a truly underrated book/series you recommend and wish the whole world would read?

I am a Shieldrunner Pirates fandom of one. Space pirates, metaphor-aided hacking, epic fight scenes, heists, sinister AIs up the wazoo, lesbian protagonists, incredibly queer and diverse cast, snappy writing…. How is it nobody else seems to have picked it up?

Thanks for asking!

Ask me things!

[st-just]

Another "lesbian space opera" book with less Empire is Barbary station by R.E. Stearns. Basically after graduating from their respective S.T.E.M. university programs, a lesbian couple realize they will never get out from underneath their student debt, so decide to become space pirates.

While capitalism is an evil empire in a way, their conflict is less directly with capitalism and more with the perils of trying to establish themselves as space pirates.

It is an established, healthy, loving relationship from the getgo, so if you're looking for enemies to lovers, you won't find that here.

(For more Sci-Fi enemies to lovers try The Luminous Dead).

Oh that does sound interesting!

Though, like, is it more 'fun pulpy sci fi romp' or 'charming protagonists gradually sliding into atrocity as material necessity, greed and the brutalizing effects of precarity and violence wear away their moral compass"? Because I can kind of see either from the description.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Lesbians in Space The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi Barbary Station…

[book-warehouse-broadway]

Anassa’s Best Books of the Year!

Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns - Fantastic space opera. James S.A. Corey meets Becky Chambers. Lesbian space pirates!

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman - A history of autism and autism research, with a whole bunch of debunking.

Ship It by Britta Lundin - A strong, fresh YA novel about fandom, identity, and the messiness of life. If this is her debut, I’m on the Lundin train forever.

[scififr]

Barbary Station, par R.E. Stearns (Saga press, octobre 2017)

Je suis parvenu à la page 140 de ce truc pour lequel l’expression « écrit avec les pieds » est encore trop flatteuse… Je vais éviter les deux volumes suivants !

[fictionalstemladies]

BOOK RECOMMENDATION:

BARBARY STATION by R.E. Stearns

recommended by: @theconqueeror

Synopsis:

Adda and Iridian are newly-minted engineers, but in a solar system wracked by economic collapse after an interplanetary war, an engineering degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Desperate for gainful employment, they hijack a colony ship, planning to join a pirate crew at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive at Barbary Station, nothing is as they expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury — they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents. And it shoots down any ship that tries to leave, so there’s no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the security system suffered explosive decapitation, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. There’s a glorious future in piracy…if they can survive long enough.

[captainkirkmccoy]

So there’s this book that’s FIREFLY meets a Kameron Hurley Novel if the Serenity was piloted by a lesbian space pirate couple and you all need it NOW. 

The author, R.E. Stearns, is a debut novelist who wrote the first draft for @nanowrimo.

Also the author is doing an AMA on Reddit so go go go. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/79uw3c/hi_reddit_im_sf_author_r_e_stearns_ama/

[sapphicbookclub]

Shieldrunner Pirates trilogy by R.E. Stearns

(Barbary Station, Mutiny at Vesta, Gravity of a Distant Sun)

Adda and Iridian are newly-minted engineers, but in a solar system wracked by economic collapse after an interplanetary war, an engineering degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Desperate for gainful employment, they hijack a colony ship, planning to join a pirate crew at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space.

But when they arrive at Barbary Station, nothing is as they expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury — they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents. And it shoots down any ship that tries to leave, so there’s no way out.

Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the security system suffered explosive decapitation, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds.

There’s a glorious future in piracy…if they can survive long enough.

Genres: sci-fi, romance

Get the books from The Book Depository here! (1, 2, 3)

[princesskuragina]

Some of my fav lgbtq books: Who is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht, Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns, Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, This is How you Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar, Another Country & Go Tell it on the Mountain & Giovanni's Room all by James Baldwin, and A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

✨ send queer book recs for pride!

[biandlesbianliterature]

Fave Five: Lesbians in Space | LGBTQ Reads

[image description: the text “Lesbians in Space / LGBTQ Reads” and the covers of the books

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns

Orbit by Leigh Hellman

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir]

[ninja-muse]

Currently reading!

[lornaslibrary]

Diversity [edited]

Here are all the books you recommended for last week’s prompt, diversity!!

Bold = the books I’ve read * = the books I personally would recommend + = want to read/on my TBR

LGBTQIA+

Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1), by Ben Aaronovitch

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1), by Mishell Baker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Wake of Vultures (The Shadow #1), by Lila Bowen

Our Bloody Pearl (These Traitorous Tides #1), by D. N. Bryn *

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), by Alyssa Cole

Dreadnought (Nemesis #1), by April Daniels

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant *

Let’s Talk About Love, by Claire Kann +

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

Ash, by Malinda Lo

Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston +

Radio Silence, by Alice Oseman *

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid *

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan

Barbary Station (Shieldrunner Pirates #1), by R.E. Stearns

POC

Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1), by Ben Aaronovitch

Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1), by Tomi Adeyemi +

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1), by Mishell Baker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Wake of Vultures (The Shadow #1), by Lila Bowen

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

Death by Dumpling (A Noodle Shop Mystery #1), by Vivien Chien

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), by Alyssa Cole

Dreadnought (Nemesis #1), by April Daniels

The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant *

Let’s Talk About Love, by Claire Kann +

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

Ash, by Malinda Lo

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel *

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, by Sarah Ockler *

Radio Silence, by Alice Oseman *

In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey To Freedom by Yeonmi Park

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid *

Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad #1), by Scott Reintgen *

The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, by Manal al-Sharif

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Equal Justice: My Journey as a Woman, a Soldier and a Muslim by Rabia Siddique

Barbary Station (Shieldrunner Pirates #1), by R.E. Stearns

The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1), by Helene Wecker

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Disability/Mental Illness

Borderline (The Arcadia Project #1), by Mishell Baker

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1), by Leigh Bardugo *

Our Bloody Pearl (These Traitorous Tides #1), by D. N. Bryn *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals #1), by Alyssa Cole

Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant *

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids, by Sarah Ockler *

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, by Marieke Nijkamp +

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

Religion

Rivers of London (Peter Grant #1), by Ben Aaronovitch

Yassmin’s Story by Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1), by Rachel Caine *

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1), by S. A. Chakraborty +

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings #2), by Mackenzi Lee *

Equal Justice: My Journey as a Woman, a Soldier and a Muslim by Rabia Siddique

To Night Owl From Dogfish, by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer

The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni #1), by Helene Wecker   

[lgbtqreads]

do you know any books about sapphic pirates ??

Sure do! Try The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie, Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns, Compass Rose by Anna Burke, and make sure CB Lee's upcoming (Sept. 7, 2021) A Clash of Steel is on your radar! There is also definitely some Sapphic piracy happening in Natalie C. Parker's Seafire series - not the MC (unless it happens later in the series than I read) but def worth a mention.

[book-warehouse-broadway]

Our Favourite Fiction of the Year (So Far):

Circe - Madeline Miller

The Good Son - You-Jeong Jeong

Barbary Station - R.E. Stearns

Looking Backward 2000–1887 - Edward Bellamy

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

Adrift - Rob Boffard