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- ↑ FIRST CONTACTS: THE ESSENTIAL MURRAY LEINSTER, reviewed in Kirkus Reviews ; published September 15, 1998; archived online May 15, 2010; retrieved November 20, 2024
- ↑ Introduction to A Logic Named Joe, collected in 'The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 8, 1946; Edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; published November 1982 by DAW Books; ISBN 0-87997-780-9
- ↑ Off On A Tangent: F&SF Style - The Oddball, the Whacky, and the Prophetic in Short SF; from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , May 2007; archived at the SF Site; retrieved November 20, 2024
- ↑ A LOGIC NAMED JOE by Murray Leinster, reviewed by Steven H Silver; published January 2012; retrieved November 20, 2024