Why aren't Gene Wolfe's works more popular?

So opens The Shadow of the Torturer, the first volume of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. ... In his new world, The Wizard Knight's narrator styles himself Able of the High Heart, yet more often he seems to be Able of the High Hand: He is frequently callous, occasionally brutal, and consistently insensitive. read more

It's not just the prose that's simplistic and amateurish (in Wolfe's other work), it's the characterization, the dialogue, etc etc; the overall quality of every element in his work apart from New Sun is surprisingly lower. read more

Gene Wolfe is simply brilliant, one of the greatest living writers in any genre, but certainly one of the greatest in terms of fantasy and science fiction. Here is why. 1. read more