Later commentators tended to echo the earlier opinions. William Mattathias Robins called it "one of Camp's best novels." Joe De Bolt and John R. Pfeiffer noted that "contrast in sexual patterns produces humorous misunderstandings on the part of the Ormazdians, and serves to satirize our romantic conventions." Robert Coulson "highly recommended" the book. After noting it "is my wife Juanita's favorite science-fiction novel, and Iroedh her favorite character ... [with whom, as a grown-up tomboy, identified completely," confessed "I'm quite partial to the book, too; if I don't quite agree that it's the best stf novel ever written, it's certainly somewhere in the top dozen or so." According to Colleen Power, "DeCamp uses the novel to highlight the role that a relatively simple advance can make in changing a society. ... This novel contains some fine touches that reveal DeCamp's ability to mature as a writer. His characterizations are stronger, his women less stereotypical, and the action just as entertaining as in his earlier works. ... He creates a complex, alien, yet hauntingly familiar society." She notes that "Rogue Queen" is regarded by critics as DeCamp's finest science fiction novel." David Pringle, giving it a rating of two out of three stars, characterizes it as "[adventure with touches of satire, told in its author's customary light manner." Harry Turtledove described the novel as, "among other things, a splendid satire on Marxism."