Criticism

• "This gets us to Stephen Baxter's Mayflower II, published last year in a limited edition from PS Publishing. In one of the great tragedies of publishing, it was not a limited enough edition and so I have read it." (James Nicoll, 2005)

• "It's true that the average human in the Xeelee universe can't eat Jell-O with a straw without accidentlaly removing an eye but these particular humans start off no stupider than than any other human of their era and proceed to breed themselves into imbecility. Well, farther into imbecility." (James Nicoll, 2005)