“Nobody bothers crazy people. […] In the end, maybe it's the crazy people who win after all.”

— Gene Wolfe, book Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

"The Adopted Father", Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931–2019

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