 Learned T. Bulman, a reviewer of "The Star Beast" for the librarians' magazine "Library Journal" wrote Dalgliesh that, unless Scribners recalled all copies of the book and revised it to remove things to which he objected, he would "lambast" it in that librarians' trade journal.Heinlein wrote to his agent to complain that Dalgliesh took the reviewer's side in her written reply to him, conceding the reviewer's complaints on every point.Bulman's main complaint was that in "The Star Beast", one of the juvenile characters was "flippant" to adult characters in the book.