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- ↑ Lynn Venable, "Time Enough at Last" If Magazine (January 1953).
- ↑ Don Presnell and Marty McGee, A Critical History of Television’s The Twilight Zone, 1959–1964 (McFarland 2015): 39-41. ISBN 9781476610382
- ↑ Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey, eds., Womanthology (Sense of Wonder Press 2003). ISBN 0918736331
- ↑ Evelyn E. Smith, Ann Walker, Barbara Constant, eds., Women Resurrected: Stories from Women Science Fiction Writers of the 50s (Resurrected Press 2011). ISBN 9781937022068
- ↑ Mercè Cuenca, "'The Most Dangerous Enemy of Truth and Freedom': 'Fahrenheit 451' and the Enforcement of Innocence in Early Cold War America" in Cynthia Stretch, Cristina Alsina Rísquez, eds., Innocence and Loss: Representations of War and National Identity in the United States (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014): 136-138. ISBN 9781443860697
- ↑ Eric Leif Davin, Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965 (Lexington Books 2005): 412. ISBN 9780739158685
- ↑ "Dear Abby" advice column, Northwest Herald (October 11, 1988): 13. via Newspapers.com
