

Many have listed him as inspiration, and yet if you look on Amazon you will see many one and two star reviews for his finest works - including The Book of the New Sun, which was voted third all-time best fantasy novel by Locus subscribers back in 1998. a sentiment echoed by other influential authors and readers. Ursula K LeGuin is frequently quoted as saying Wolfe is our Melville Authors Michael Swanwick and Patrick O'Leary have gone so far as to say he is: The best writer alive today.

The New Yorker recently called him Sci-Fi's Difficult Genius. Gene Wolfe is perhaps one of the most under-rated and criminally overlooked writers in genre fiction.
