As part of the professional SF community in Canada, from roughly 1999 to 2017, my distinctive way of being a writer got noticed even by academics. Below is a mention of the ORU phenomenon from the book The Canadian Fantastic In Focus: New Perspective, edited by Allan Weiss and published in 2014. (You can find the book online at https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Fantastic-Focus-New-Perspectives/dp/0786495928 )