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Overruled!

By: Hank Davis - editor, Christopher Ruocchio - editor
Narrated by: Ryan Burke
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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

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There are some 'ingenuous' clever enough stories

Some stories read much worse than others. There's no attempt at hard sci-fi. But there is at providing some entertainment and amusement as often shorts stories aim to. My favourites are the ones written by Sheckley, Budrys, Shvartsman and Zinos-Amaro, Ruocchio, Riley, followed by Daniel, Simak, Clarke, and would also include the one by Anderson. The rest I would skip

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