Reception
Boucher and McComas selected the collection as one of the best sf books of 1953, praising the stories' "humor, technical ideas, science-fictional thinking and all-around excellence." P. Schuyler Miller praised it as "an excellent collection . . . span the whole range of Writing in the Hartford Courant, reviewer R. W. Wallace declared that the stories "show as a more skilled literary artist" than even his novel Childhood's End had.
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“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
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