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- ↑ Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winners at Tor.com; published August 18, 2019; retrieved October 1, 2019
- ↑ Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography, by Jeffrey Marks, published 2015 by McFarland & Company
- ↑ Boucher, Anthony, in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ; by Brian Stableford; published June 1997; edited by John Clute and John Grant