PART ONE

1) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

2) An Interview with Thomas Disch by Scott Edelman, Last Wave, Winter 1986 (Full interview can be accessed via this think: https://web.archive.org/web/20150915174743/http://www.ukjarry1.talktalk.net/last.htm (retrieved March 6, 2026)

3) Ibid

4) I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers by Thomas Hine (Harper Collins, 2002) pg. x

5) Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environments, 1900-1960 by Gail Cooper (The John Hopkins University Press, 1998) pg. 178

6) Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile (Fordham University Press, 2014) pg. 223

7) After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort by Eric Dean Wilson (Simon & Schuster, 2021) pg. 204

8) Ibid, pg. 213

9) Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) by Stan Cox (New Press, 2010) pg. 117

10) Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile (Fordham University Press, 2014) pg. 237

11) Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer) by Stan Cox (New Press, 2010) pg. 123

12) Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers by Larry McCaffery (University of Illinois Press, 1990) pg. 111

13) It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: The Tragedy and Promise of America in the 1970s by Peter N. Carroll (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982) pg. 242-243

14) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

15) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (Doubleday, 1988) pg. 4

16) Ibid, pg. 8

17) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 9

18) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

19) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pg. 8, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

20) The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Gregg Press, 1977) pg. xi

21) White Fang Goes Dingo and Other Funny S.F. Stories (Arrow Books, 1971) pg. 170

22) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

23) The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (Harper & Row, 1984), pg. 284

24) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pg. 18, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

25) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

26) Ibid

27) Ibid

28) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (Doubleday, 1988) pgs. 8-9

29) The Sub: A Tale of Witchcraft (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999) pg. 236

30) Thomas M. Disch 1940- , pgs. 1-2, taken from a printed proof from The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

31) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 8

32) Ibid, pgs. 8-9

33) https://patents.google.com/patent/US3393673A/en (retrieved March 6, 2026)

34) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

35) AMAZING STORIES (November, 1992) pg. 67

36) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

37) Ibid

38) The New York Times, Jay Monroe, 80, Engineer Who Invented Tensor Lamp, Dies by Douglas Martin (July 2, 2007) Retrieved December 4, 2024

39) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (Doubleday, 1988) pg. 58

40) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

41) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

42) Ibid

43) The Word of God: or, Holy Writ Rewritten (Tachyon Publications, 2008) pg. 10

44) The Portable Radio in American Life by Michael Brian Schiffer (The University of Arizona Press, 1991) pg. 195

45) AMAZING STORIES (October, 1992) pg. 9

46) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Books of Wonder, Marrow, 1866/1992) pg. 27

47) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

48) Ibid

49) Artifacts from Modern America by Helen Sheumaker (Greenwood, 2018) pg. 178

50) The Thomas M. Disch Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library