A third of the way into this book I had the strange experience of realising I must've read it as a teenager and completely forgotten. This makes young-me an idiot, because this is a masterpiece. Well written, complex world building that manages to balance the showing with the telling.

I can see how young-me may have had difficulty with this manifesto on anarchism, one that doesn't shy away from the difficulties and weaknesses of the system even as it promotes its values. Plus at one point the protagonist suffers some drunken premature ejaculation.