Edited by Grant Naylor and published by Penguin Books, it was released just a few months before the episode was broadcast.
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Jenny Agutter plays another Psiren, this time an illusion of Kryten's creator Professor Mamet.
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Samantha Robson plays a Psiren that lures him with an illusion of one of his teenage fantasies - Pete Tranter's sister.
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The hands of Phil Manzanera appear in the scene in which the fake Lister plays the guitar brilliantly.
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The concept of sirens creating illusions to lure unwary travellers to their deaths first appears in Homer's Odyssey, and this concept is much-repeated in Western film and literature.