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- ↑ 1976 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved June 4, 2018
- ↑ Publishers Weekly volume 210; 1976
- ↑ The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Orson Scott Card; chapter 3, 'Magic', by Allan Maurer and Renee Wright; published 2010 by Writer's Digest Books
- ↑ Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, by Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon; published 2010 by Liverpool University Press
