...because of the way one particular critic at Locus reacted to mt short sf novel, The Dry Salvages ("This is what happens when horror writers try to write science fiction.").

I won't go off here about the idiocy of expecting all the dangers of space travel to be environmental, but that's one of my favourite of your works, and I hope you decide to continue with the sf, if only to spite those kind of reviews. Both that book, and A is for Alien actually did a lot to remind me how much I like sf, after being bored of spaceships and humanoid aliens and pages of engineering-porn.