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This survey is focused on stereotype spaces and shows that when one goes over from Banach theory to the non-Banach situation, some difficulties may appear. The author essentially studies the category of stereotype spaces, i.e., locally convex spaces \(X\) satisfying \((X^ *)^ *\cong X\) where \(*\) denotes the dual space of continuous complex-valued linear functionals endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on totally bounded sets, cf. \textit{S. S. Akbarov} [Math. Notes 57, No. 3, 319--322 (1995; Zbl 0836.46002)]. It is noted that this category is complete, co-complete pre-Abelian and monoidal closed. Defining the Grothendieck map, he examines trace problems [see \textit{A. Grothendieck}, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 16 (1955; Zbl 0064.35501)] and shows that a stereotype space \(X\) has well-defined trace if and only if it has the stereotype approximation property. He also investigates projective and injective stereotype algebras, modules over projective stereotype algebras, stereotype group algebras, algebras with reflection and absolute homology theory of stereotype algebras. The paper is well organized and contains several interesting examples. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1012.00040].