I have been reading more stories in Cosmic Corsairs this week. My favorite was “The Night Captain” by Christopher Ruocchio.
Roderick Halford is the Night Captain of the Tamerlane, a spaceship which is ferrying over 90,000 officers and combat personnel to the front lines in a war which has been going on for years. The destination is 25 years away and the personnel of Lord Hadrian Marlowe's Red Company are in icy stasis for the voyage. During a short layover at a refueling station, the ship is attacked by pirates. Only a few men on the night crew are awake and minding the ship, and Halford has lost communications with them, but he gets unexpected help during his fight to regain control of the ship.
I enjoyed the Night Captain's backstory especially.
Cosmic Corsairs was edited by Hank Davis and Christopher Ruocchio. There are a total of 15 stories. Seven were published for the first time after 2000, some of those published for the first time in this book. The other eight stories were published in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1980's. Thus, a lot of variety.
The other stories I read this week were:
- “Pirate Chance” by Carysa Locke
- “Redeemer” by Gregory Benford (first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1980)
- “Trading Up” by Sarah A. Hoyt and Robert A. Hoyt
Except for “Redeemer”, the stories I read this week were published in 2020 in this anthology for the first time. They were all fun to read and clever.
I must be a sucker for pirates in space, because I have enjoyed every story I have read in this book so far.
Rick Robinson at Tip the Wink introduced me to this book, and sent me his copy to read. My first post on this anthology discusses briefly three other stories from the book. Also see George Kelley's review of Cosmic Corsairs for comments on more of the stories and a list of the stories.
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