Reception
Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin placed the novel "among the great works of the imagination written in English in the last decade or more." Boucher and McComas, however, were less enthusiastic, faulting the book for being "simply padded, occasionally with startlingly ingenious gimmickry, . . . often with coruscating cascades of verbal brilliance too often merely with words." Reviewing the book for Astounding Science Fiction, P. Schuyler Miller characterized the title piece as "one of Bradbury's bitter, almost hysterical diatribes," although he praised its "emotional drive and compelling, nagging detail."
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