I'd call him a prose stylist at least as good as JK Rowling; but I suppose that's the textbook example of damning with faint praise... Also, SF authors don't h

I'd call him a prose stylist at least as good as JK Rowling; but I suppose that's the textbook example of damning with faint praise... Also, SF authors don't have societal cachet. Joan Didion has cachet. Tom Wolfe has cachet. Arthur Miller has cachet. Kazuo Ishiguro has cachet. At best, SF authors have...an audience.