1. Sources

2. Works by Eric Frank Russell

3. • Russell, Eric Frank. "…And Then There Were None" (1951). Astounding Science Fiction. (No DOI; available in anthologies, e.g., ISBN 978-0-312-87821-4 for The Great Explosion collection.)

4. • Russell, Eric Frank. "Late Night Final" (1948). Astounding Science Fiction. (No DOI; available in anthologies, e.g., ISBN 978-0-312-87821-4.)

5. • Russell, Eric Frank. The Great Explosion (1962). Dobson Books / Pyramid Books. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-312-87821-4 for modern editions.)

6. Analyses of Russell’s works

7. • Pilgrim, John. "Science Fiction and Anarchism" (1998). Libcom.org. (No DOI; online article.)

8. • Killjoy, Margaret (ed.). Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (2009). AK Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-1-84935-002-0.)

9. • Carson, Kevin. "Contra Reisman" (2006). The Anarchist Library. (No DOI; online essay.)

10. • "Comments on the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" (2006). catb.org. (No DOI; online commentary.)

11. Historical sources on the Roman Empire

12. • Harper, Kyle. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (2017). Princeton University Press. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvc776kg

13. • Fafinski, Mateusz. "Plagues, climate change, and the end of an empire: A response to Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome" (2018). History Compass. DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12507

14. • Zhu, Zhetong. "An Analysis of The Decline of The Roman Empire From The Perspective of Daily Life" (2022). Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences. DOI: 10.54097/ehss.v1i.651

15. • Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–1789). (Classic; modern edition ISBN 978-0-19-280571-3; no DOI.)

16. Historical sources on the Byzantine Empire

17. • Haldon, John. A Companion to Byzantium (2010). Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781444320015

18. • Jeffreys, Elizabeth (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (2008). Oxford University Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-19-925246-6.)

19. • Shepard, Jonathan (ed.). The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500–1492 (2008). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521832311

20. • Treadgold, Warren. A History of the Byzantine State and Society (1997). Stanford University Press. DOI: 10.1515/9780804779371

21. Historical sources on the Ottoman Empire

22. • Hathaway, Jane. "Rewriting Eighteenth-Century Ottoman History" (2004). Mediterranean Historical Review. DOI: 10.1080/0951896042000256634

23. • Quataert, Donald. "Ottoman History Writing and Changing Attitudes Towards the Notion of 'Decline'" (2003). History Compass. DOI: 10.1111/1478-0542.038

24. • Shaw, Stanford J. Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923: The Impact of the West (1990). University of Texas Press. DOI: 10.7560/720640

25. • Sariyannis, Marinos. A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century (2019). Brill. DOI: 10.1163/9789004385245

26. Historical sources on the British Empire

27. • Hopkins, A. G. American Empire: A Global History (2018). Princeton University Press. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvc776kg

28. • Hyam, Ronald. Understanding the British Empire (2010). Cambridge University Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-521-11522-3.)

29. • Marshall, P. J. (ed.). The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (1998). Oxford University Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-19-820563-0.)

30. • Fullagar, Kate. "Modern British history from the Antipodes" (2016). History Australia. DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2016.1156217

31. Historical sources on the USSR and USA as empires

32. • Kotkin, Stephen. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (2021). Yale University Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-300-26079-3.)

33. • Zubok, Vladislav M. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007). University of North Carolina Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-8078-5958-2.)

34. • Immerwahr, Daniel. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-374-17214-5.)

35. • Kramer, Paul A. "Power and Connection: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World" (2011). American Historical Review. DOI: 10.1086/ahr.116.5.1348

36. Historical sources on the Chinese Empire

37. • Wang, Yanzhong. "The historical perspective of the Chinese Nation: An analytical framework grounded in the critique of exogenous historiographies" (2025). International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology. DOI: 10.1186/s41257-025-00140-y

38. • Roman, Sabin. "Historical dynamics of the Chinese dynasties" (2021). Heliyon. DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07293

39. • Ko, Chiu Yu. "North China Over the Last Thousand Years of Chinese History" (2024). Journal of Chinese History. DOI: 10.1017/jch.2024.22

40. • Swann, Nancy Lee (ed.). Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook (2014). Columbia University Press. DOI: 10.7312/swar15986

41. Philosophical sources on free will and libertarianism

42. • Palmer, David (ed.). Libertarian Free Will: Contemporary Debates (2014). Oxford University Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-19-986008-1.)

43. • Lemos, John. A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will (2018). Routledge. (No DOI; ISBN 978-1-138-48921-2.)

44. • Pereboom, Derk. Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life (2014). Oxford University Press. (No DOI; ISBN 978-0-19-968551-6.)

45. • Swenson, Philip. "An Argument for Libertarian Free Will: Hard Choices Based on either Incomparable or Equally Persuasive Reasons" (2017). Open Journal of Philosophy. DOI: 10.4236/ojpp.2017.71005

46. Sources on entropy in cosmology and biology

47. • Roman, Sabin. "Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective" (2019). Entropy. DOI: 10.3390/e21040406

48. • Frautschi, Steven. "Entropy in an Expanding Universe" (1982). Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.217.4560.593

49. • Lineweaver, Charles H. "The Entropy of the Universe and the Maximum Entropy Production Principle" (2014). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40154-1_22

50. • Oztaş, Ahmet Mecit; Dil, Emre. "Entropic source of cosmological constant and implications: Generalization to higher dimensions" (2021). Physics of the Dark Universe. DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2021.100769