[3] In 2016, Kasmara was awarded the Sir James Wallace Prize at the University of Auckland for best portfolio on the Master of Creative Writing programme.
[9][10] Rachel O'Connor for literary journal Landfall described it as a "highly original, genre-bending cocktail of social realism, sci-fi, detective drama and fantasy, with a subtle dash of romance".
[11] The New Zealand Listener noted that the speculative fiction aspects of the novel allowed Kasmara "to examine some uncomfortable truths about human nature" and gave it "the feeling of a cult classic".
[16] An excerpt from Isobar Precinct was selected for the 2021 anthology A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand published by Auckland University Press.
[1]: 10 Another excerpt from Isobar Precinct appeared in the earlier anthology Ko Aotearoa Tātou / We Are New Zealand, published by Otago University Press in 2020.