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Originally Posted by Indian Chief
Thanks for the recommendation. Added to my goodreads queue.
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Sure. Put him on the short list, man.
“He’s the finest living male American writer of SF and fantasy — possibly the finest living American writer" - Neil Gaiman
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/o...ion=Obituaries
"I have my own list, very different from theirs. At the top of it is the name GENE WOLFE.
Gene Wolfe has never won a Hugo.
Nebulas, yes. World Fantasy Awards, yes. Locus Awards, BSFA Awards, Campbell Memorial Award (not to be confused with the Campbell New Writer award). Even the Rhysling Award for poetry, and something called the August Derleth Award. But never a Hugo. Eight nominations, zero wins.
I would rank Wolfe as one of the greatest SF and fantasy writers of the past half-century, right up there with Roger Zelazny and Ursula K. Le Guin. Yet he remains without a rocket." - GRRM
https://grrm.livejournal.com/424135.html
"Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning." -Michael Swanwick
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/grand-masters/gene-wolfe/
"Well yes, he's a god. It is to the mainstream's eternal shame that they haven't recognized him. He is one of the great living authors." - China Mieville on Wolfe
http://strangehorizons.com/non-ficti...china-miville/
How to Read Gene Wolfe
https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwng0704.htm