Law Fiction

Locked down within the biosphere walls that surround Luhan Hypercity, Hiu has only chattering devices for company. It is not going well. His fridge has just filed for divorce. In fact, all of the devices have begun acting oddly recently. Sharkey’s Law that "Robots shall always be kept under meaningful human control" has broken down. Hiu finds his usual routine of eat, sleep, get annoyed by robots, repeat, has been disrupted.

Being a teetotaler means Aaron ends up having to take his sloshed father-in-law, Sam, home after a family get-together. He helps the older man inside when they arrive at their destination and takes him up to the bedroom. That’s when he finds out he’s been set up, and there’s no escape as the door is closed. What he thought would be a simple task turns to something more as he finds just how much his father-in-law lusts after him.

This audiobook collects three short stories by W. B. Yeats: "Rosa Alchemica", "The Tables of the Law", and "The Adoration of the Magi". All three of these esoteric stories feature the character of Michael Robartes (as well as the character of Owen Aherne in the second two tales), and though it may seem obvious that it’s this character that connects all of these tales, what really connects them all is Yeats imagining the hidden, mystical fraternities of old tradition which preoccupied much of his writings and which he personally longed for initiation into.