"Brilliant."
- Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle
"Incantatory."
- Marcia Bjornerud, Wall Street Journal
"Chilling."
- Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times
"Visionary."
- Bathsheba Demuth, Chicago Review of Books
"Exquisite."
- Ryan J. Haupt, Science
"Quietly prophetic."
- Jedediah Purdy, Atlantic
"[Macfarlane's] best and most lyrical book."
- Economist