As a distorted, exaggerated, skewed, and otherwise mutated vision of the reality that surrounds us, satire shares a lot with speculative fiction. It’s to isolate humor as the element that separates the two genres, but it’s not that easy. As far back as Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal (whose macabre premise could be the stuff … Continue reading The Satirist’s Progress: A Discussion with Nick Mamatas and Paul Tremblay by Jeremy L. C. Jones