But I've worked out the geography and botany and climate of the place with the care that one uses in science fiction. So the book occupies some sort of borderline territory. The readers can call it whatever they like, so long as they enjoy reading the book. And a lot of them seem to. I've never had a job in the outside world, where you work in an office somewhere, in the midst of a lot of other people, and have to drive or take a train to get there.
Writers work at home, in a room by themselves.
I love it. It shouldn't surprise anybody that many of the characters in my books are loners, too, although you'll see them again and again trying to forge connections for themselves with the society around them, sometimes by remarkable science-fictional means. But so far I can see nothing but ignorance and hysteria at work in the reports of UFO activity that have cropped up in the 50 years since the first supposed sighting. I always let her read my work after I've finished something and, when I'm in real trouble, during the writing of it. On rare occasions I've allowed friends to read a manuscript in progress also, though I prefer not to have to do that.