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Gene Wolfe

New York-born, Texas-raised, Korean War veteran, a graduate of the University of Houston with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, for many years editor of the trade periodical Plant Engineering, retiring from that position in 1984 and writing full-time since. With these credentials one might expect Wolfe to be among the leaders of the Hard-SF league but almost the exact opposite is true. His work boasts some of the most poetic, but at the same time cryptic, use of the English language, both modern and archaic, and the closest literary models I can think of with which to compare him would be James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon, with a little bit of Proust thrown in for good measure.