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—Brian W. Aldiss, writing as Dr. Peristyle, ''New Worlds'' October, 1965.}}
 
[[Brian Stableford]] notes in ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (2nd ed.) that "a considerablefrequently fraction"written, ofbut rarely printed, storiesstory submitted to science fiction magazines feature a male and female astronaut marooned on a habitable planet and “reveal (in the final line) that their names are Adam and Eve.”<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzAqAQAAIAAJ&q=“reveal+(in+the+final+line)+that+their+names+are+Adam+and+Eve.”&dq=“reveal+(in+the+final+line)+that+their+names+are+Adam+and+Eve.”&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir87eOqYfcAhVnqlQKHdbYCUkQ6AEIKTAA|last1=Clute|first1=John|title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction|date=1995|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=031213486X|edition=1st}}</ref>{{Page needed|datepage=October 201516}}
 
The genre is also listed as a cliché in the [[Science Fiction Writers of America]]'s Turkey City Lexicon<ref>[http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924221810/http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html |date=September 24, 2006 }}</ref> and David Langford's SFX magazine column on same.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ansible.co.uk/sfx/ |title="Langford" SFX Column Index |publisher=Ansible.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2015-10-26}}</ref> [[Will Ferguson]] references the cliché extensively in his novel ''Generica'' (2001).