Angel Station by Walter Jon Williams
Ubu Roy and Beautiful Maria are a couple of young adults who were genetically engineered by their “father,” a spaceship pilot and explorer who recently committed suicide on his ship, leaving his two “kids” to fend for themselves. The money is gone, and so are their prospects, so Ubu and Maria set out to try to make enough money to avoid foreclosure on their ship.
Luckily, they both have a couple of special skills engineered into their DNA. When they happen upon an unknown alien civilization,
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