"In its formal virtuosity, in its brilliant, experimental systemization of plot and setting, in the deep seriousness with which it lays out ideas of tragedy, gender, work, religion, desire, moral responsibility ... Bayliss's tetralogy stands as a signal accomplishment in American letters."
     - Gary Grieve-Carlson

"Jonathan Bayliss uses language in a way that makes our native tongue come alive for us as though we were experiencing it for the first time in all its freshness and hard-edge originality."
     - Peter Anastas

"Gloucesterbook is a genuine achievement, a literary work of true originality. The real hero here is Place."
     - Gerrit Lansing

"The novels of Jonathan Bayliss prove that Walt Whitman was right when he said that scientists are the lawgivers of poets."
    - Dave Rich