Street Candles

A Stardrifter Novel

A Spacer's Rules for Success

1. Never be desperate
2. Never do more than your job description
3. Never, ever go down the well
   

Ejoq needs work. The tramp starship Grizzelda needs a gunner. But what starts as a last-minute personnel replacement soon turns into something far more, with a non-functional duty station, his predecessor's emotional fallout, and a deeply buried secret that will change the course of nations.

Through a dark odyssey across a violent, frozen world, and a haze of lies and shadowy clues, Ejoq will face frenzied zealots, frightened elitists, and dangerous mercenaries on an unknown mission.

Revolution, intrigue, and battles among the stars...Better take a deep breath!

©2014 David Collins-Rivera (P)2020 David Collins-Rivera

Great performance and story

The star drifter series has to be one of my favorite of all time. The story is so engaging, and one thing the author does really really well is natural dialogue, and natural responses from the characters for the situations they find themselves in.

I absolutely hate in a book when you get jolted out of the world that they have created by a character saying or doing something that doesn’t fit them, or the situation, or seems so irrational or unnatural. I haven’t ever felt that way in this book.

I also love when an author narrates their own story, but this one is even better because of his ability to do so many different voices so well.

I can’t wait to listen to more from this series.

Excellent, Timely

Wonderfully read and written. The story has both tons of edge-of-your-seat action and tons of the juicy world-building details that are often missing from futuristic fiction. David Collins-Rivera convincingly portrays point-of-view character Ejoq De Santos with sarcasm, wit, grit, and gut-wrenching emotion. I can’t recommend Street Candles highly enough.