"Outstanding literary value...might have resulted from a collaboration between Kafka and John Wyndham. The characters are superbly developed and have as their giant set a metropolis in disintegration"
Compton's work is informed by an acute and subtle moral sense which avoids the extremes of satire and sentiment while compelling us to see the world ethically...he succeeds superbly in preserving certain traditional fictional values and human values in works of genuine science fiction.