Mundane SF

Following this discussion on The Mumpsimus I read the Mundane SF web site and came away a bit non-plussed. If you look at the list of authors on their blog that they reckon have written Mundane SF, well, they're some of my favourites. But why? Why bother having a manifesto? Why bother with a web site? Why why why?

Personally, according to their manifesto, I write mainly Mundane SF. But I don't do it on purpose, I just write what I write and read what I like. Yes I like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and Kim Stanley Robinson. But er...I've run out of words in a blur of confusion...

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