RSSBoyd Tonkin, “Christmas Book Special: Our Critics Choose This Year’s Best Reads,” The Independent 30 November 2007:
Set in Prague as the Velvet Revolution lost its sheen and artists yielded to dealers, Tom McCarthy’s funny, ingenious Men in Space (Alma, £12.99) gave a subversive tweak to the dream of a border-busting age of people, ideas and money on the move. His knack of harnessing bold ideas to offbeat wit and close-focus storytelling skills makes McCarthy one of the fictional finds of the decade.