Editing Codex Seraphinianus (section)

==Reception==

[[Baird Searles]], in ''[[Asimov's Science Fiction]]'' (April 1984), says "the book lies in the uneasy boundary between [[surrealism]] and fantasy, given an odd literary status by its masquerade as a book of fact".<ref name=searles>[[Baird Searles]] (April 1984). [[Asimov's Science Fiction]].</ref>

[[Douglas Hofstadter]], in ''[[Metamagical Themas]]'', finds many of the illustrations "grotesque and disturbing" and others "extremely beautiful and visionary". He says the book "seems [to some people] to glorify [[entropy]], chaos, and incomprehensibility".<ref>{{cite book |author=Douglas R. Hofstadter |author-link=Douglas R. Hofstadter |title=[[Metamagical Themas|Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern]] |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |year=1985 |page=229}}</ref>

American journalist [[Jim Dwyer (journalist)|Jim Dwyer]] finds that the work is an early critique of the [[Information Age]].<ref name=wildb>{{cite book |title=Where The Wild Books Are: A Field Guide to Ecofiction |year=2010 |publisher=[[University of Nevada Press]] |isbn=978-0-87417-811-1 |author=Jim Dwyer |author-link=Jim Dwyer (journalist) |page=91}}</ref>