Like I say, I was writing SF and this kind of stuff fascinated me.

She has written SF, fantasy, romance, young adult, and action-adventure, as well as things she wouldn't tell her grandmother about.

The 60s and 70s saw a flowering of women writing SF (and I mean speculative or science fiction, not fantasy).

You don't really write hard SF!

Neuromancer was a success and Gibson kept writing SF.

In fact, he was writing SF before he wrote anything else.

By the end of that decade, she had left again, moved to Portland, Maine, and only returns to writing SF sporadically, for fun.

Half the time he writes computer documentation and the other half he writes SF.

It is not a problem confined to the craft of writing SF.

Joan Holly, who has also been writing SF successfully for years, deals with a different kind of parent-child pattern.