I liked it when I did, but wasn't quite sure what Wolfe was riffing off of, though it seemed to be something. Then I found this webiste about the Stanford Prison Experiment . Interesting factoids about those zany experimental psychologists. The Templeton Gate is a new site with essays on Gene Wolfe and other SF luminaries, like Cordwainer Smith. Crank Magazine 's site.
Back issues are available for order.
Tor has published The Best of Crank that contains this story. A French website about the New Sun series. Robert Borski has a web page with detailed essays about Wolfe's early novellas, The Fifth Head of Cerberus . The Sci-Fi Channel has the transcript of a Gene Wolfe chat session from 1996. It is unmoderated.