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The crew aboard the rogue Starship Icarus have a singular goal— survive. Now separated from the ISS Atlas and the deep space training program, the crew is forced to confront who they are and how much their freedom may be worth.

This is a story about pirates. When Kay, an idealistic pirate enthusiast, convinces his best friend Pip to stowaway on a visiting pirate ship called the Icarus, they are pulled into a world full of betrayal, bravado and broken promises. With piracy, politics and a frankly unrealistic amount of queer characters, Icarus Rising follows the crew of the Icarus and their rivals on the Hyacinth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever wondered what goes through the mind of some men and why we sometimes do the things we do? Described as ‘Adrian Mole’ meets ‘Bridget Jones’, ‘The Icarus Complex’ is a love, sorry and goodbye letter to that ‘one, or those who got away’ from the perspective of a black male trying to navigate life in the UK and is equally a candid, reflective, humorous, but undoubtedly honest, heartbreaking and never before told account about the high and lows of relationships, suppressing / dealing with em ...