Penguin Books republished this work in a slightly abridged form in 1961, and claimed that it was "the first book of science-fiction (sic) to project the present-day concept of'cybernetics' to its logical conclusion".
Penguin Books republished this work in a slightly abridged form in 1961. The publisher claimed that Wolfe had written "the first book of science-fiction to project the present-day concept of'cybernetics' to its logical conclusion".