He made his argument into a novel because he is a writer, novels are what he does. But he tends to write around the scientific ideas he has been reading and his

He made his argument into a novel because he is a writer, novels are what he does. But he tends to write around the scientific ideas he has been reading and his work often serves as convenient summaries of those ideas for a broad audience – mentioning a KSR plot is standard fare on "news for nerds" sites like this one. Also, my post above intentionally says "akin to" and not "identical to".