Like most professional fiction and nonfiction writers, Stableford has a day job to cover the slow times (creative writing, King Alfred's College, England). He t... » 

Like most professional fiction and nonfiction writers, Stableford has a day job to cover the slow times (creative writing, King Alfred's College, England). He traces the birth of the genre to 1726 and Book Three of Swift's Gulliver's Travels , calling it a fictional anti-science satire. His entries consider hacks as well as himself and other fine a «