“I am a conservative. I certainly read William F. Buckley, Jr. with delight…I think he mellowed a little too much at the end…He wasn’t as sharp-edged as he really should have been. Perhaps the same thing will happen to me. But that doesn’t mean that it’s good,” says Gene Wolfe, author of The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction.