Bruce H. McCosar profiled Kaleidotrope for his Recommended Reading series and mentioned “A Family Forged“:

“Here are a few of the best stories from recent issues…. ‘A Family Forged’ by Aaron Emmel. Here my spoiler-sense won’t let me say anything, other than that this is one of those stories where you have to read to see how the fictional world works, and how the narrative flows against those boundaries.”