 In its 80th anniversary edition in 2015, the "Quill & Quire" listed Maillard as one of Canada's "notable Canlit talent" along with other American-born anti-Vietnam-War authors, Philip Marchand, Jack Todd, Judith Merrill, Mark Frutkin, and William Gibson.In his most recent novel "Twin Studies" (2018) -- set in Vancouver, Medicine Hat, and Los Angeles -- Maillard returns to the topic of gender fluidity that he first explored in "Two Strand River" in 1976.Apple's iBooks reviewed the novel and described it as " a fascinating exploration of wealth, class, and gender fluidity [that] reads like a 21st-century Canadian version of Dickens' London novels."