англ.«This story is controversial as hell. It is controversial because the editor in his forward does everything in his power to make you believe that it is deliberately written while the autor was up on drugs. A careful study of the wording indicates that he might not have been, which is just as well for his general welfare, I guess. But it is a fact, as some of you might recall from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, that Dick knows his hallucinogens wery well, and that perheps as a result of this he also writes very well about hallucinatory situations. In the case of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, superbly well; in the case of this story, he is somewhere beyond that point. He is to the point where he makes sense only to himself. This is a shame because the first three-quarters of this story appear to be very good. But if this is rebellion — and I suppose it is — in fact, it certainly is — it is, again, involutional.» Budrys, Algis (April 1968). Galaxy Bookshelf. Galaxy Science Fiction. с. 159—160.
