Sando and Hedda escape from Sydney, a walled city, in 2075; inscribed by the author in 1993, and with her annotation underlining '... and lives in the beachside Sydney suburb of Darling Point' and noting 'silly Victorian person'; laid in is an autograph note, signed to John Baxter sending an early draft of this novel and remarking, 'I didn't realise when I set it in the future that I'd actually be treading on some science fiction writers' toes ...'
