He reviewed "Integrity", a darkly comic satire about a libertarian who frees the cells of his body, as among Bayley's best work while the Ballardian "Man in Transit" was "less clever and more accessible".

He thought that The Seed of Evil, being a retrospective of Bayley's early work, is weaker than The Knights of the Limits "but even these dazzle and delight".

He cites "Farewell, Dear Brother" as being part of a body of work that contributed as much to the success of New Worlds as the more famous stories of Brian Aldiss and Thomas M.

[1] Brian Stableford described "Sporting with the Chid" as "marvellously gruesome" and compared "The Seed of Evil" with Melmoth the Wanderer.

"[2] In a blog post about Bayley, Alastair Reynolds commented that, in particular, "Sporting with the Chid" was "the product of a truly lunatic and unfettered mind," adding: "[s]how that one to the next person who says SF is undeserving of literary respectability..."[3]