1st February 2006, 6:45 AM
This guy, from what I understand, actually originally intended to market it as fiction, which is fine, except he later labelled it as nonfiction per the advice of his publisher. He was wrong in listening to this advice (nonfiction is NOT just a marketting buzz word!), and the publisher was wrong in giving it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)