Boucher and McComas described the 1949 edition as "twelve superb short stories of a future in which the new gods have led man into strange scientific and sociological bypaths -- a book it would be difficult to overpraise."
The review by Boucher and McComas emphasizes the exceptional quality of the 1949 edition, which presents a thought-provoking collection of twelve science fiction stories that explore the consequences of humanity's reliance on new gods.