I'm currently looking for stories where the MC finds a derelict Starship, Space Station, Starport, or Shipyard and has to recruit a crew to help make repairs.
Thank you.
I'm currently looking for stories where the MC finds a derelict Starship, Space Station, Starport, or Shipyard and has to recruit a crew to help make repairs.
Thank you.
In most of the stories the ships are not derelict. Monbade's New Federation Weber's Mutineers Moon (dead tree) several others, the ship helps with repairs but requires a crew. The others usually has the sole hero figuring things out. But it seems familiar . let me think on this.
One of the character arcs in dead tree Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton involves repairing and crewing a ship inherited from the character's father. It's not a big enough part of the overall story of the novel to necessarily be the reason to read it, but on the other hand the trilogy is some of the best space opera I've ever read so it might be worth checking out anyway.
There are also elements similar to your requirements in Piers Anthony's Macroscope (1969). In that the characters are in a stolen ship that has access to an alien information broadcast and they're trying to find useful information to escape their pursuers. This involves jury-rigging some rather dubious technologies. Again, not exactly what you're looking for, but might be worth checking out if you can ignore the really bad take the author has on how people with high intellects interact.
Jamie Macfarlane's series Privateer Tales in Kindle isn't exactly that but you might like it. A couple of teens living in an asteroid mining community help drive off a pirate attack and can claim one of their ships as salvage. They recruit a few friends and others and it's off to the races.
Ka Hmnd has several storie about the MC (usually young) building a ship out of parts from scrapped ships and going adventuring.
Junkman by Howard Faxon (premier) sort-of fits, definitely derelicts.
The Mission by Gina Marie Wylie (on BtFH) also sort-of; MC is recruited to help investigate derelict-ish ship found by government.
Try the quarter, half, full etc share series by Nathan Lowell. You can read them over and over again. Thoroughly wholesome and enjoyable.
Try the quarter, half, full etc share series by Nathan Lowell
are these on SOL?
If the author is spelled right, NO!
Neither on StoriesOnline, scifiStories nor finestories does the search in Authors find Nathan Lowell.
HM.
A Terran Trader on Toolondo
by FantasyLover
Synopsis: Voted Best Erotic Science Fiction Story 2016 and best Long Erotic Story of the Year 2016. Marc Parker makes four-year hyperspace round-trips to trade with the Karkallians, a race distant from Terra. He falls in love with a beautiful young Karkallian woman, all while dealing with different social norms between Terrans and Karkallians. He also has to deal with what he learns about her father. Inadvertently becoming involved in a political intrigue, Parker suddenly finds that he's now a target.