Book Reviews
[D]isastrous mishmash of science fiction, laborious humor, dreary social satire and cheap eroticism"; he characterized Stranger as "puerile and ludicrous", saying "when a non-stop orgy is combined with a lot of preposterous chatter, it becomes unendurable, an affront to the patience and intelligence of readers"
Orville Prescott - New York Times (August 4, 1961)
'[D]isturbing, shocking and entertaining.... It sparkles and crackles and produces goose bumps of apprehension and dissatisfaction with the human race.... The best of his many books. (Back cover, 1968 paperback edition.)
Washington Post
[I]n some ways emblematic of the Sixties... It fit the iconoclastic mood of the time, attacking human folly under several guises, especially in the person or persons of the Establishment: government, the military, organized religion. By many of its readers, too, it was taken to advocate a religion of love, and of incalculable power, which could revolutionize human affairs and bring about an apocalyptic change, presumably for the better.
David N. Samuelson - Critical Encounters: Writers and Themes in Science Fiction
[T]he values of the sixties could hardly have found a more congenial expression.
Robert Scholes and Eric S. Rabkin - Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision
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