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- ↑ Le Guin, Ursula K. (February 1, 1982). "Sur" . The New Yorker . pp. 38–39.
- ↑ Sur title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ↑ Locus Awards 1983 Science Fiction Awards database. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Herself a Multitude" Francine Prose in The New York Times , March 3, 1996. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ↑ Carmean, Karen and Donna Glee Williams, "Ursula K. Le Guin", pp. 771–781, Carl E. Rollyson, ed., Notable American Novelists, Revised Edition, Vol. 2, Pasadena, California: Salem Press, p. 781 (2008).