Writing in Tor.com, Douglas Lain stated: The most interesting and perhaps most overlooked move that David Gerrold makes in his fractal time travel book "The Man Who Folded Himself" is that he writes the whole story in the second person without alerting you, the reader, directly to this fact. ...Perhaps another title, a more accurate title, for Gerrold’s book would have been “The Man Who Discovered a Fold in Himself,” or better still, “The Man Who Came Into Being Because of a Fold in Himself,” or even “The Fold in Time That Took Itself to Be a Man.” Finally, an alternative title might be, “You are a Fold in the Time Space Continuum that Takes Itself to Be Reading a Book.