The Vindication of Ronald Clay is a collection of interwoven fables about the lives of five patrons to a coffee shop at the center of the universe. Set in an alternate but recent past where Napoleon's descendants rule Europe and the world's population has exceeded critical mass, The Vindication of Ronald Clay takes a whimsical, musing look into the strangely connected lives of five café patrons and events of political, spiritual, and scientific revolution in which they're caught: