I would like to write something

I sat on the bench by the willows and ate my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn't all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I'd like to write like Delany or Heinlein or le Guin.

— from Among Others, by Jo Walton.

Jo Walton may have achieved her character's wish.