Christopher Ruocchio - editor has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators. The most-rated is Star Destroyers.
Overruled!
Summary
A new anthology of science-fiction stories that explores what the future of jurisprudence might well be like, with thrilling, hilarious, and downright entertaining results. Lawyers - pardon me, attorneys - may be portrayed in fiction as the good guys (and gals), or as greedy conniving shysters. In mundane fiction, the former are represented ably by Earle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and by Harper Lee's Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. The less favorable view was expressed by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his SF classic, A Princess of Mars, in which his doubly immortal John Carter observes that the Martians are very fortunate in that, while they may behave with savage cruelty, and are constantly at war, at least they have no lawyers. Both views of the legal profession have been explored in science fiction and fantasy since John Carter set foot on the Red Planet, as well as looking into possible ways that future punishment for crimes may change, not necessarily for the better. Some of science fiction's greatest talents are included in this book, including classics by Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven, Clifford D. Simak, Robert Silverberg, and more, and newer stories by Sarah A. Hoyt, Alex Shvartsman, and Alvaro Zinos-Amaros, and still other stellar talents bringing down the judge's gavel with a verdict of excellent entertainment.
©2020 Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio (P)2021 Tantor
Cosmic Corsairs
Summary
New fiction and classics of the genre collected by the editorial team behind Space Pioneers and Overruled!. Space pirates! Words that conjure up rousing tales of adventure, derring-do, brave heroes battling the scurvy vermin of the galaxy. Those vermin have taken to pillaging cargo ships and, even worse, space liners, relieving the helpless passengers of their valuables, and worse with the comely women passengers, then spacing the lot - unless one or more of the aforementioned brave heroes arrive in the nick of time, and turn the tables, making the spaceways safe again for the innocent and helpless. On the other hand, perhaps the pirate captain is a woman, and it's the comely male passengers who need rescuing. And on the third hand (we're talking space pirates here, possibly aliens with four or more arms), perhaps those ships traversing the interstellar void are not so innocent, and the pirates, fighting an evil despotic star empire and defending the freedom of the space lanes, are the good guys and gals. The possibilities are many, and the daring exploits set the blood racing in the veins of any listener with even a trace of buccaneering spirit in their hidden self. So board a battered but spaceworthy fighting starship and set sail - er, thrusters - for a universe of freebooting adventure!
©2020 Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio (P)2021 Tantor
Star Destroyers
Summary
From the dawn of history onward, commanding the most powerful ship around has been a dream of admirals, sultans, emperors, kings, generalissimos, and sea captains everywhere. For what the intimidation factor alone doesn't achieve, a massive barrage from super-weapons probably will. In "Superweapon", a fight for possession of an ancient alien warship will determine the fate of two vast interstellar powers. In "Hate in the Darkness", a team of libertarian Freeholders must think outside the box to do battle with the might of the United Nations and its powerful navy. And in "A Helping Hand", Jody Lynn Nye posits an interstellar submarine on a rescue mission behind enemy lines - with the fate of an entire species hanging in the balance. Big, bold, and edge-of-your-seat space opera and military science fiction from David Drake, Michael Z. Williamson, Mark L. Van Name, Steve White, Jody Lynn Nye, Brendan DuBois, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Susan R. Matthews, Mike Kupari, J.R.Dunn, Robert Buettner, Christopher Ruocchio, Dave Bara, Joelle Presby, and Gray Rinehart.
©2018 David Drake, Steve White, Mark L. Van Name, Mike Kupari, Jody Lynn Nye, J. R. Dunn, Michael Z. Williamson, Gray Rinehart, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Dave Bara, Joelle Presby, Susan R. Matthews, Robert Buettner, Christopher Ruocchio, and Brendan DuBois; Introduction and all additional material copyright 2018 by Tony Daniel, Christopher Ruocchio (P)2021 Tantor