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- ↑ Rettberg, Scott (2019). Electronic literature. Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-1-5095-1681-0. OCLC 1038024013.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Skains, R. Lyle (2023). Neverending stories : the popular emergence of digital fiction. New York. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-5013-6491-4. OCLC 1341268134.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Klobucar, Andrew, ed. (2021). The community and the algorithm : a digital interactive poetics. Wilmington, Delaware. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-64889-311-7. OCLC 1261364273.
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