The short story was included in the anthology Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene edited by Jonathan Strahan in 2022 and the collection Sleep and the Soul in 2023.
Determined to expose the false game, Carl travels into a region recently hit by a cyclone, but is only confronted with real suffering.
Russell Letson wrote in the Locus Magazine, that the short story "has a kind of inside-out intrigue plot" and the "tight point of view immerses us in Carl’s actions."
"[3] Gary K. Wolfe wrote in the Locus Magazine, that Greg Egan, "from whom we might have expected the most arcane variety of hard SF, instead provides a bruising satire of climate deniers and anti-science attitudes.
"[4] Ian Randell wrote in Physics World, that "Egan paints a delicately layered picture of someone in the grip of doublethink (accepting conflicting views about a subject, mostly due to political indoctrination) that still, in keeping with the book’s overarching theme, offers hints of hope in the end.