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- ↑ Clarke’s universal sci-fi magic, by Ed Park, in the Los Angeles Times ; published March 20, 2008; retrieved February 25, 2021
- ↑ Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery, by Ed Park, in the Los Angeles Times ; published May 16, 2010; retrieved February 26, 2021
- ↑ BOOKS IN BRIEF: FICTION & POETRY, by Therese Littleton, in The New York Times; published February 9, 2003; retrieved February 26, 2021
- ↑ Russell Letson reviews Carter Scholz, in Locus ; February 2016 issue; retrieved February 25, 2021
- ↑ REVIEW: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, by Charles Tan; in SF Signal ; published October 26, 2009; retrieved February 25, 2021
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