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- Why Publish? Mike Gunderloy (FactsheetFive), 1989, 54 pages, paperback - Available as e-zine download/online ; page 45: Category: Fate: Richard Shannon - Trajectories
- Science Fiction author Lewis Shiner website
- Under Short Stories: "Odd Man Out," Trajectories, Feb 1988.
- Under Nonfiction: "Interview with Robert Anton Wilson," Trajectories, Winter 1989.