I'm going to make a confession here.
I never enjoyed the work of Gene Wolfe. There was just something about his style that grated on me. However, he was a major influence on writers who's work I do enjoy, most noticeably fabulist Neil Gaiman and the wonderful Michael Swanwick. (No, Michael, I'm not buttering you up).
Like most Grand Masters he was named as much for his influence on the community as for his own work. My biggest regret is not getting to meet him, because by all accounts he was as amazing as a man as he was a writer.
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