Writing in
The New York Times,
J. Francis McComas "warmly recommended"
Cloak of Aesir, noting that "none of these stories follows its chosen path to an expected destination."
Groff Conklin characterized the collection as "somewhat overwritten, but still well done."
Boucher and
McComas, however, praised
Cloak for the stories' "amazing modernity of concept and extrapolation [and their] rarely achieved combination of original thinking and high adventure.".
P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection as "all top-notch idea-stories . . . laying the foundations of the more adult stuff we know today." ==References==