[Thadlerian]

Her style (I've only read her Science Fiction books) is very heavy, though I like it. Large parts of the books have very little dialogue, some places there is hardly any action at all, and there are almost no physical descriptions. Instead we have the toughts of the protagonist, slow and thorough, reciting of large-scale history, the balance between political forces, or the silent relationships to other characters.

The main work, Shikasta, is a tale in two parts about planet Earth, seen from the outside. The protagonist Johor is from an altruistic human-like civilization called Canopus, so advanced that there is no meaning trying to describe technology or society. Much of it remains untold of.

The book has two parts; a long, heavy story about Canopus projects to encourage human civilization on Earth, and a tale about Johor being born on Earth as a human being in the 20th century, to repair what has gone wrong. The second part is far more "mainstream"-like, with a focus on human feelings and relationships, with some touches of Science Fiction.

There are four more Canopus books:
The Marriages Between Zone Three, Four and Five, about a woman on an unknown planet, and her troubles.
The Sirian Experiments, about Canopus's inferior rival Sirius, who attempt to reach their greatness.
The Making of the Representatives, about a small planet trying to resist winter and stagnation.
and
The Sentimental Agents, the only humorous of the five, in which rhetoric and idealism are compared to diseases, muddling the societies of the small Volyen empire.