↑ Grimshaw, Mark (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality. New York: Oxford University Press. tr. 702. ISBN9780199826162.
↑ In the acknowledgments section following the text of Snow Crash, Stephenson writes: The words "avatar" (in the sense it is used here) and "Metaverse" are my invention, which I came up with when I decided that existing words (such as "virtual reality") were simply too awkward to use.
