"This is a book of punctuated equilibrium, where long stretches of inaction erupt into shocking, dynamic set pieces. Cameron’s great strength here lies in his ability to keep you invested in the long stretches where nothing much happens, then blindside you with a left hook of a twist."

"... as varied as these stories can be in formal and genre conceits (there are transformations, ghosts, mystics, androids), the sense of a conversation taking place between them, and an urgent one, remains."

"It’s tempting to view Maierhofer’s story as prankish: turning one of the most celebrated pieces of American fiction into an at-times quite gruesome serial killer narrative, but the texture of the prose overall isn’t callous, and there are a number of moments in the story which could even be called moving, with this poignancy a direct result of Maierhofer’s manipulation of his references, each one of them in some way or another a kind of dead form. After all, Jim Morrison hardly retains his power as a poet when the music goes away and you turn fourteen."

"A million versions of this type of scene exist, but very few of them possess this level of restraint (as rare as a New York writer content not to call by name the streets and avenues which appear in his fiction)..."

"...the very shifting of tectonic plates turns a low-lying island into high ground and the seafloor into a post-apocalyptic warzone, the setting for a bizarre romance between a former Vogue model and a whale..."

"...Legendre, perhaps recognizing that the more you explain absurdity, the more absurd it seems, manages the moment by moving fast. Guess what, reader? Hubby’s got a time portal..."