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In a bustling future where humanity lives side‑by‑side with alien newcomers, a seasoned divorce attorney navigates a legal landscape reshaped by politics and interplanetary migration. Jose Obanion, a sharp‑tongued “Legal Eagle,” has built his career on the old community‑property creed, but a sudden repeal of restrictive alien laws sends the system into chaos, forcing him to confront unfamiliar customs and a flood of extraterrestrial clients.
As the new Subversive government pushes controversial reforms, Obanion’s high‑rise office becomes a front‑line for baffling cases that test the limits of terrestrial marriage statutes. With his trusted secretary, Thais, and a city still clinging to familiar rituals, he must balance his professional oath against the shifting tides of law, politics, and culture—all while sensing that something monumental is about to upend his carefully ordered world.
Language
en
Duration
~36 minutes (35K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2019-02-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1921–2004
A prolific mid-century storyteller, he brought wartime experience and pulp-magazine energy to science fiction, thrillers, and adventure novels. His work ranges from sharp short fiction to ambitious alternate history like The Burning Mountain.
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