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- ↑ Grigar, Dene (2020). "The Persistence of Genius: The Case for Stuart Moulthrop's 'Victory Garden'". Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media. Electronic Literature Lab. doi:10.7273/8mwy-j433 . Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ↑ Bell, Alice (2010). The possible worlds of hypertext fiction (Thesis). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 5. ISBN 9780230542556.
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