 "Employment" was originally credited to Lyman R. Lyon.Algis Budrys praised "Science Fiction Inventions" as "an excellent book," saying that almost every one of the stories included was "a real landmark sf story, in the especial sense that each of them either originated or first fruited a basic technological idea in such a happy combination with story values that it is impossible to touch that idea again without having to find some totally new framework for it.