Stardrifter

A look at artificial environments in space. What kinds are there? How many people live in them? Are they safe? The future is full of people, and they all need somewhere to be; a lot of them are on space stations.

An in-depth examination of the future technology of starjump, including how it works, how it came about, and what the implications for human society have been.

A close look at the Alliance of Independent Nations: a complex, chaotic collection of independent states, held together by an elected body, an Executive branch, a huge bureaucracy, and a space-born military second to none.

An overview of the Stardrifter series, including the books and stories available right now; a feature about the future setting of the series, including speculations about time, and what the four major nations are.

Evany and her partner are the owners of Diamond Hard Security, specializing in High Risk and Return missions. Soldiers of fortune, their latest mission goes perfectly...for a while.

Stalked by a military hunter/killer pack in a remote Corporatespace star system, their tiny ship, A Daydream of Josephina, must find it's way back to the Alliance. A simple data grab would never warrant such a desperate response, but here it is anyway.

Something isn't right, and Evany has to figure it out before Corporate Team soldiers get them all in their sites!

That darned cargo boat is no closer, but it's only one problem the crew of Sheila have to contend with now.

Injuries! Unannounced schedule changes! Regulations so new no one has even heard of them! And an AI with a very big digital chip on his shoulder!

Artificial intelligence takes many forms in the future. Some AI's are friendly, some are hostile. Some are philosophical, some are pragmatic.

And some are just plain jerks.

A manufacturing error at a massive automated factory sends the crew of the small personnel boat, Sheila, rocketing out after a robotic cargo vessel, hoping to stop it before its load of faulty mechanical parts gets shipped out. The company will be on the hook if they can't catch it. It's a liability nightmare!

Oh, and if any people use those parts? They might, you know, die.

A Stardrifter short story.

 

Cree "Oiler" Huunan, life-long spacer and liquid cargo handing specialist, is about to be sprung from jail, his mandatory forty-eight hours for public drunkenness being nearly up. But what awaits such a man, when he's lost everything...home, job, and the love of his life?

A short tale about having a place in the world, and knowing who and what that makes you.

The story ends with a big wind up, and one last secret!

Darkness falls, and so does Ejoq!