James Nicoll remembered enjoying "Inherit the Stars" when he was a teenager but he had stopped reading the sequence after the first three books, as "I have heard about "Entoverse" (the one I missed) makes me want to hunt it down." He went on to write a derisive early review of "Mission to Minerva", where he concluded that "[overall, there was an ok novella trying to escape from this. Nothing in this book beyond the identity of the author required it to be so very, very bad."