Mystery gathers strength from having roots in reality. A shoot from soil we know is always more pleasing than the unoriented and monstrous growths that often pass for advanced science fiction…. [Today We Choose Faces] postulates strange habitats populated with weird people but, throughout, it remains in touch with what we know. It is a satisfying and successful novel which exercises the mind rather than befuddles it. (p. 404)

Martin Sherwood, "'Today We Choose Faces'," in New Scientist (© IPC Magazines, 1975), Vol. 66, No. 949, May 15, 1975, pp. 404-05.