 "Judgment Day," described by one reviewer as "the ultimate Revenge story," is a departure from de Camp's usually light and breezy work, a "disturbing story" both popular on initial publication and "presag[ing] by some forty-five plus years the Columbine High School massacre" and similar incidents.Another commenter has seen parallels in its scenario to the dilemma of present-day software engineers uncovering security holes in software programs, in which publicizing the problem could encourage both speedier patching and hacker exploitation.P.