What you may like to ask is whether the style of his prose in consonant with the genre he uses, such as science fiction, as opposed to fantasy. What, also, of accusations that his plotting is not as strong as others, and that he achieves less focus of depth than a superficial sheen of linguistic brilliance, surface pyrotechnics rather than insightful linguistics?
Also, what of the fact that most have little to say beyond the needs of the plot, as opposed to his verse? That is, where he goes beyond the "slim purpose" of scaring in his verse, he does not do so in his weaker plot works, and this lack of a greater focus tells.
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