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- ↑ Devil You Don't Know, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved June 19, 2018
- ↑ 1979 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved June 19, 2018
- ↑ A Brief User's Guide to Visions of Wonder, by Joe Sanders, in SFRA Review #250 (January/February 2001); retrieved June 19, 2018