y with the way things have
             turned out due to the controlling nature of the
             governments. This is further illustrated in the fact that
             Brunner's hero is a young man who is bent on changing the
             world. He struggles to evade the officials and uses all
             skills available to him, whether inherent skills or
             technological ones, to the best of his ability, to put an
             end to the misuse of power that is so much a part of his
             world which involves the entity of the world wide datanet.
             Perhaps, one of the most insightful parts of the book
             comes in the first half, when Haflinger is experiencing
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