My Buddy Gave Me a Starship by Myles Christensen

Mitch’s buddy has been hiding a starship from him, and just when they are going to fly it into space together, hostile aliens arrive and everything goes south. In an effort to save his buddy and the starship from the aliens, Mitch does the obvious thing: he accidentally warps hundreds of light-years away. Marooned in a distant star cluster, Mitch is forced to deal with a snarky teenage AI, a rogue auto-pilot, and a beautiful alien soldier who’s ready to steal his ship at any moment. He has to decide whether he wants to run back to his mediocre life on Earth or join his new co-pilot to help the struggling Resistance movement.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Exploration