> no conspiracy theory has yet emerged arguing that the Empire never really fell at all "To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement [...] Whoever

> no conspiracy theory has yet emerged arguing that the Empire never really fell at all "To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement [...] Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus [...] thereby it becomes its enemies [...] the Empire never ended." —Philip K. Dick aka Horselover Fat Seriously, if the author is into weird conspiratorial thinking, the late work of PKD is a must.