Sorok let nazad eto schitalos' fantastikoy. Sorok let nazad eto chitalos' kak fantastika. Issleduyushchaya i rasshiryayushchaya granitsy zhanra, zhadno vpityvayushchaya vsevozmozhnyye noveyshiye veyaniya, primeryayushchaya obshchechelovecheskoye litso, otvazhno ignoriruyushchaya kainovu pechat' "zhanrovogo getto". Seychas eto vosprinimayetsya kak odno iz samykh chelovechnykh proizvedeniy noveyshego vremeni, kak roman pronzitel'noy psikhologicheskoy sily, kak filigrannoye razvitiye temy lyubvi i otvetstvennosti. Ne zrya vyshedshuyu uzhe v 1990-ye knigu vospominaniy Kiz nazval "Eldzhernon, Charli i ya".