She is more of a literary fiction writer than SF, but her near-future bio-apocalypse scenarios are chilling, although I did chortle a little bit about characters whose emails appear on their sleeves still using DVD players. I would not have expected her to resort to fridging the only female character in the book who wasn't a fling or an absent mother, or for that character to be an archetypal Wise Asian Sex Worker, but it's probably a good thing she appears to be moving on to different protagonists in the subsequent books.