 Silverberg compares Tiptree’s writing to that of Hemingway, saying that the masculinity is found in the fact that the writing was "simple, direct and straightforward" and uses the style of "relying on dialog broken by bursts of stripped down exposition".He was later proven to be wrong, as Tiptree is actually Alice Sheldon, a female writer.This raises the question about whether or not male and female writers have definite difference in the way that they write, and if there are certain parameters that define "women’s writing".