"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