Joy Division once proclaimed that “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” But in her science fiction novel Barbary Station (paperback, Kindle), writer R E Sterns introduces us to two women so determined to not let that happen that they end up on a space adventure that will eventually encompass three books. Though in talking to her about this, the first novel in a planned trilogy, Sterns pointed out that this didn’t actually start out as a sci-fi love story.