If she weren't a failure, she'd have to be acknowledged as a living female scifi author with a massive lifetime output and influence over the genre?

I want to say something about how her work is less accessible to non-scifi readers because she uses detail and background to reveal the culture of her characters when non-scifi critics expect that to reveal the interior of characters. I'm having trouble articulating it without saying something I don't mean about other famous female scifi writers' styles.

Cherryh's work was my metaphor for living a year in Japan, but even with the good advice it had, I had to wonder if it made me prone to isolate myself.