No other writer working in Sci Fi today that I have read can create heroesthat are reprehensible and admirable simultaneously like he does. His work does not seem to belong in the same genre as Star Wars. On my shelf it sits between Lovecraft and Tolkien. There are clearly right and wrong actions. Not so in the WJW universe.
Heroes have doubts.
Heroes don't always have happy endings in the story, if they have endings. The reader sometimes has to figure what happened next. Lovecraft and Tolkien blew the doors off their respective Genres. Lovecraft wrote stories about people that I ultimately came to care about. In Lovecraft heroes mess up and die.