Putatively based on meticulously researched background detail, the novel incorporates – in the first edition without acknowledgement or permission – a summary derived from David Langford's spoof novel, An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World, 1871 (1979) as by William Robert Loosley, edited by Langford - Clute/Nicholls, Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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