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- ↑ Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections. Website of Locus - The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field.
- ↑ Everett F. Bieler & T. E. Dikty, eds., The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 New York: Frederick Fell, Aug. 1949, 314 pp.
- ↑ The Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Anthology — A. N. Editor, by James Nicoll; published May 13, 2017; retrieved May 13, 2017