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- ↑ "Sarja - The EarthEnd Saga - Storytel". www.storytel.com (in Finnish). Retrieved March 14, 2021.
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- ↑ "A Vision of Fire by Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin, review: 'tin-eared nonsense'". The Telegraph. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
- ↑ Rebecca Kurson (May 2, 2016). "13 Ways of Looking at Gillian Anderson". Observer . Retrieved May 2, 2016.
