[The Moon Children is an] excellent novel; it fairly glitters with imaginative devices and captures perfectly the sense of alienness, of other worlds, that makes it peculiarly science fiction. The characters are very strange, yet they become absorbingly real, so much so that you will hate to leave them. The story tells of three strange children born to astronauts after their return from a moon flight where they were exposed to some strange crystals from outer space. The children, two beautiful, one a shaggy monster, grew up with unfolding unhuman capabilities which frighten everyone, especially official governmental types. Rush out and get this one.

Samuel Mines, "Robots, Moon Children, Machines Taking Over," in Book World—The Washington Post (copyright © 1973 The Washington Post Company), March 25, 1973, p. 13.∗