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Sewer, Gas & Electric: Public Works Trilogy

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Sewer, Gas & Electric is the exuberant follow-up to Matt Ruff's cult classic and critically acclaimed debut Fool on the Hill. High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity's power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant's crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.

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"A post-millennial spectacular — dizzyingly readable." Thomas Pynchon

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"A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower." Neal Stephenson
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About the Author

Matt Ruff is the author of the critically acclaimed Set This House in Order as well as two previous novels, Fool on the Hill and Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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zerode, June 7, 2012 (view all comments by zerode)
I'm reading this for perhaps the fourth or fifth time - it's such rollicking good fun. When you see what Thomas Pynchon and Neal Stephenson said about it, it's a wonder that this book isn't MUCH more widely known than it is. It really is brilliant: funny, political, satirical, witty, smart, bizarre. It often feels more magical realist to me - like Garcia Marquez's "100 Years..." or Mark Helprin's "Refiner's Fine" - the bit in the NY sewers most obviously - than science fiction. Some of the futuristic stuff is dated now, as happens more and more with SF - real developments in things like computers have vastly outstripped most authors' imagined scenarios. At times, though, it is disturbingly prescient: it has an airplane crashing into the Empire State Building to destroy it. Not so prescient: an end to AIDS in 1999. That probably seemed like a reasonable thing when the book was written - what a horrible situation that that prediction couldn't have been proven right or even out-paced.
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This book was a lot of fun.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780802141552
Author:
Ruff, Matt
Publisher:
Grove/Atlantic
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
FICTION / Literary
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
Science Fiction and Fantasy-A to Z
Copyright:
2004
Edition Description:
Grove Press
Series:
Public Works Trilogy
Publication Date:
20040931
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
464
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 17 oz
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