Wow! I think I'll have to listen to it again (I got the audio book) because - wow - there is a lot going on in this story. Still very relevant today, just swap anarchists for terrorists. But beyond that there is a lot of philosophical stuff going on. At the moment (and it is one of those stories where you get different things out of it t different times) what strikes me is what it says about the nature of Truth. How it is like smoke - difficult to grasp and often just as you think you've got it, it changes