David Collins-Rivera

Stardrifter

Fiction EN ↓ 132 episodes

Hundreds of years from now, when vast supernations have arisen across the galaxy, a professional gunner wanders the stars, floating from job-to-job. Ejoq Dosantos makes friends and enemies; he finds comfort and tragedy; and invariably, he uncovers more than his share of danger. A galaxy in motion requires a man in motion, and Ejoq never stops moving! Stardrifter is a space opera series by David Collins-Rivera, that encompasses novels, short stories, audiobooks, podcasts, and even a tabletop role-playing game!

Author

David Collins-Rivera

Episodes

Street Candles Chapter 01 10.01.2021 44:52

Ejoq has an interview, and gets hired aboard the tramp freighter, Grizzelda, as a replacement gunner. It's just a milk-run to the planet Barlow...so why is everyone so upset?

Another Show At Twenty-Two 10.01.2021 29:51

A funny man has a stark reminder of his serious past, and is forced to examine the choices he made.

Cold Passage 10.01.2021 44:47

An emergency wake-up from cryogenic sleep drops Ejoq in the middle of trouble. With a wicked freeze-tube hangover, a boat packed to the bulkheads with passengers (yet strangely empty), and a shady crew that knows far more than they're telling, he has to hit the deck running -- or, at least, shuffling -- before a trio of armed vessels, waiting in ambush, cuts them all to pieces!

Hull Breach 10.01.2021 1:01:35

A Stardrifter short story. A sixteen year old girl, living on a space station with her aunt and uncle, finds herself at the crossroads of her life. A coming-of-age tale, set among the stars.

Motherload Part 03 10.01.2021 52:14

PART THREE: INCOMING The story concludes with friends who might be enemies, and enemies who are definitely enemies. Everything is what it looks like, which means nothing is what it seems!

Motherload Part 02 10.01.2021 54:04

PART TWO: INCURSION The crew faces unknown odds, and the middle of nowhere is starting to get crowded. They have just one chance to save a strangely quiet merchant ship...and only half-a-chance to save themselves!

Motherload Part 01 10.01.2021 50:50

PART ONE: BREAKDOWN A crew of oddballs assigned to picket duty in a remote star system find their junker of a gunboat falling apart at the seams. Between bad pay, an idiot captain, and some rapidly-failing equipment, things couldn't possibly get worse. Right?