X Out of Wonderland is "a tale in the manner of Voltaire’s Candide – which, like its prototype, puts tongue in cheek and takes on nothing less than the state of the nation and the state of the world. And neither, ruled by the global free market, is in good shape.....Cates's world is futuristic in tone yet based on our very own world today, ina witty, skillful, amusing--an unrelentingly clear-eyed -- satire."        

              --Kirkus Review