"Baby, You Were Great" was a finalist for the 1968
Nebula Award for Best Short Story. It has been described as "an indictment of men's exercising technological control over women's bodies", while
Strange Horizons emphasizes that the story "does not suffer in quality simply because the technology [for recording and transmitting emotions] it imagined shows no signs of arriving soon."
Algis Budrys considered it to be "pretty good" with "some inventive thinking, but not in places that will reach the reader". ==References==