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The sections comprise an introduction to 'Scanning in the Nineties,' 'Mr Perrin and Mr Trail,' 'Discover'd and Surpris'd,' a letter by Michael Levy, and 'Mountains of Books.'
Egan states that most reviewers of his SF novel, Distress, have failed to realise that it was meant to work at a metaphorical level. Because of this, he claims that this work has been treated as a kind of failed techno-thriller.