A scholarly reprint edition was issued by Arno Press in 1978, and a mass market paperback by Carroll & Graf in 1984.

Groff Conklin called it "perhaps the first science fantasy to use the alternate time-track, or parallel worlds, idea.

"[2] Boucher and McComas praised the novel as "a slightly dated but still originally imaginative and acutely satiric story.

"[3] P. Schuyler Miller found Cerberus "dated and old-fashioned", but noted it was "a pioneering variation on the parallel worlds theme.

"[5] Damon Knight wrote "Those who insist on the close reasoning and the satirical wit of modern science fiction will find surprising amounts of both here.