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- ↑ The Role of Books, by John C. Bunnell, in Dragon #157 (May 1990)
- ↑ Coolest Shakespeare Riffs in Science Fiction and Fantasy, by Charlie Jane Anders and Lauren Davis; at Io9; published September 9, 2010; retrieved October 4, 2018
- ↑ SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION, edited by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, and Lisa Ulevich; chapter 2: "Post-human Hamlets: Ghosts in the Machine", by Todd Andrew Borlik; published November 27, 2017 , by Routledge