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Extractions: How to describe this book? Let's try a plot summary. Hmm. It's 2023. Acrophobic Harry Gant builds record-breaking mile-high skyscrapers in New York. His crusading ex-wife Joan teams up with a holographic Ayn Rand to prevent a new global disaster, helped by Kite, a one-armed veteran of the US Civil War, but hindered by Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark living in the New York Sewers. Meanwhile pacifist eco-pirate Philo Dufresne pilots his pink polka-dotted submarine Yabba-Dabba-Do on a quest to save the last ring-tailed lemurs, with a surprising intervention by the Queen of England. And all these threads, and more, turn out to be linked. That captures only some of the inspired lunacy. For roughly the first two thirds of the book, very little seems to actually happen. Lots of delicious seemingly unconnected little vignettes, flash-backs, and random events are presented for our delight. The lack of perceived action isn't a problem, because the individual clips are so gorgeous. But then Ruff tosses in a lit match, and the whole carefully crafted confection goes "whoosh", with non-stop action as the threads come together. It's surreal, it's clever, it's thought provoking, it's inventive, it's funny. It's wonderful. Read it.
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Matt Ruff Bibliography
A bibliography of matt ruff's books and short stories, with book covers andlinks to related authors. matt ruff (1965 ). Search Authors. Search Books.
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Laughin' With Ayn: Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas & Electric
A review of Sewer, Gas, and Electric describing its parody of Atlas Shrugged.Category Arts Literature Authors R ruff, mattAyn Shrugged. matt ruff's Sewer, Gas Electric is a wonderful sendupand parody of Ayn Rand's ponderous classic, Atlas Shrugged.
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Extractions: Ayn Shrugged Matt Ruff's is a wonderful sendup and parody of Ayn Rand's ponderous classic, Atlas Shrugged . Treading in many of the same places Rand goes in her bizarre exploration of capitalism, Ruff does a humorous deconstruction of the faux philosophy of Objectivism that will have the in-on-the-joke reader crowing (those mutt's at the Village Voice took Ruff's tongue-in-cheek dedication to Rand seriously, the book's that good!). Comprising three parts, Ruff pulls the Competent Capitalist from Atlas (this time a kind of a goodtimes hippie at heart), and follows the travails of his empire as it is set upon by the Bad Guys. Billionaire Harry Gant (who is Harry Gant?) just wants to build the biggest darn buildings in the world and make everybody happy, but a scheming artificial intelligence secretly developed by Walt Disney in the 1950's has other plans for a Future Perfect. As back story, the early 21st century saw a plague that wiped out nearly the entire black race, and the evil AI wants to finish the job. It seems strange that Ayn Rand's strange and ugly vision of Capitalism Unleashed in the service of greedy self-interest and anti-governmentism, which has such a strong resonance in the current economic tableau, is not in the forefront of philosophical discourse. The anti-collectivist, ant-altruist tenets of Rand's Objectivism would seem to mirror the culture of the new American politics and the rise of the New Right, with its grubby selfishness and knee jerk small government beliefs. Nobody is talking about Rand because she boldly wears her political heart on her sleeve. Rand openly expressed the nasty self-interest politics that New Republicanism is about but wishes to hide. Ruff plays with this mercilessly. What better embodiment of the New Right than a genocidal Disney AI, a savagely deconstructed image whose desire to destroy the black race parallels the wish fulfillment of the covert racism which is the engine of so much of the New Republican agenda.
Matt Ruff
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Extractions: Background The minuscule bio on the back jacket of Fool on the Hill . He lives in Philadelphia." In fact, 31-year-old Ruff just arrived in Philadelphia this past May by way of Georgia, Manhattan, Ithaca, Hartford, Boston and Maine to settle down with his longtime Society Hill girlfriend who works at Center City's world-renowned Baumann Rare Books. The two plan to marry this fall. Which is sweet. As are Ruff's rather remarkable books. His ricocheting plots are littered with everything from trolls and dragons to snooty academics, nuclear submarines and bottled genies. Buffoon-puncturing sarcasm and parodic invention aside, Ruff is, at heart, a gentle humanist and his books prove ultimately uplifting. He's got a rare knack for modern fantasy, mixing the timeless-mythical and the contemporary-mundane with shimmering, alchemic flair. Ruff majored in creative writing at Cornell University (Ithaca's landscape is as much a factor in Fool on the Hill Fool and the early reviews for Sewer are stellar.
Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas & Electric
Sewer Gas Electric. The Public Works Trilogy. by matt ruff. New YorkThe Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997 Again with the Madcap Behavior?
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Extractions: The Bactra Review: Occasional and eclectic book reviews by Cosma Shalizi The Public Works Trilogy New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997 Yet another madcap romp through the near future, with many weakly connected plots, characters who are mostly collections of peculiarities, an unexplained coincidence every few pages, and a vast conspiracy lurking behind it all: the natural reaction of the cultivated reader is to snort and reach for something much more astringent. I have the greatest respect for the natural reactions of the sensitive reader, but just this once they are worth inhibiting, and worth reading. takes place, for the most part, in New York City in 2023 - really in the Recent Future, which is just like the present, only more so. (There is no maundering about cyberspace, virtuality, or anything of that sort.) I won't give out any spoilers for the main plot-line - not that it's so suspenseful - other than to say it's a genocidal conspiracy involving the Disney Corporation. (I am a bit disturbed at how Ruff uses genocidal plagues as a plot device, but plagues are, for obvious reasons, hot stuff these days.) There are about half a dozen other plots swirling about the uncovering and foiling of the Conspiracy, connected by over-lapping characters and some involvement with Gant Industries; my favorite is the one about an ``alternative-environment-adapted
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Automata Simple Models of Complex Hydrodynamics Roustang, François The LacanianDelusion Rubinstein, Ariel Modeling Bounded Rationality ruff, matt Sewer, Gas
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Extractions: The Bactra Review Authors' web-pages, when I know them, are linked to their names. A B C D ... W X Y Z Alic, Margaret Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century Atkinson, A. C. and A. N. Donev Optimum Experimental Designs Badii, Remo and Antonio Politi, Complexity: Hierarchical Structures and Scaling in Physics Badoz, Jacques and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery Ball, Philip The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature Ballard, Dana An Introduction to Natural Computation Batchelor, George The Life and Legacy of G. I. Taylor Bear, Greg Becker, Anne The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin Beniger, James The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society Bialek, William and Fred Rieke, David Warland and Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck, Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code Bonner, John Tyler The Evolution of Complexity, by Means of Natural Selection Box, Edgar see Gore Vidal Braitenberg, Valentino
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matt ruff. about matt ruff. an interview. about Sewer, Gas Electric (1997). aboutmatt ruff. matt ruff's personal homepage http//home.att.net/~storytellers/.
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Extractions: E.Mail-Projekte WWW Hypertext CD-ROMs ... Person Matt Ruff about Matt Ruff an interview review of "Fool on the Hill" (1988) about Matt Ruff Matt Ruff's personal homepage: http://home.att.net/~storytellers/ Ein langes Interview mit Matt Ruff (Susanne Bach, Mannheim University): gute links zu Artikeln über Matt Ruff etc. Artikel über Matt Ruff anlässlich einer Lesung in Braunschweig (1988) next book: Set This House in Order I nterview mit Matt Ruff bei amazon.com: Amazon.com: How did you begin writing? Did you intend to become an author, or do you
Matt Ruff GAS Die Trilogie Der Stadtwerke
Translate this page Neue Bücher - kurzund matt ruff GAS Die Trilogie der Stadtwerke.Roman. 622 S., Hanser 1998. Vorab gibt es eine Personal Aufstellung
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Public Works Trilogy, 1997) dtv 2000 Übersetzt von Giovanni
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Sewer, Gas Electric De Matt Ruff
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Fool On The Hill De Matt Ruff
Translate this page Portada de Fool on the hill de matt ruff Valoración Grove Press. Nueva York.1988. ISBN 0-8021-3535-8. Título disponible en Fool on the hill matt ruff.
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Extractions: Matt Ruff por Xavier Riesco Riquelme Alcantarillado, Gas y Electricidad; la trilogía de Obras Públicas. Y no es broma. Así se llama. Meisterbrau ) bajo Manhattan. Una veterana manca de la guerra de secesión norteamericana de 181 años. El millonario ex-esposo de la intrépida luchadora subterránea que fabrica androides en serie y rascacielos absurdamente grandes. Un cocodrilo albino ( Alligator Manhatoe ). Un zumbado excombatiente de una guerra africana obsesionado por la desaparición de los libros eróticos de las bibliotecas públicas. Unos cuantos Boy-scouts urbanos (contador geiger y analizador de residuos químicos en mano). Un submarino tripulado por mujeres (Fabricado en España). El busto parlante holográfico de Ayn Rand, una escritora ultra-reaccionaria. Varios contables y ejecutivos. Una rebelión de autómatas. J. Edgard Hoover. Los cámaras de la CNN. Y Walt Disney.
Sewer, Gas And Electric, Matt Ruff, 1997
Sewer, Gas Electric The Public Works Trilogy matt ruff, 1997 Copyright © 1997by matt ruff From Chapter 1 Down in the Canyons with Eddie Wilder (and Teddy
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Extractions: Eddie went over and introduced himself to his new colleagues. Then he asked, with a cautious nod at the strange photo: "Who's that?" "That," Prohaska said, flaring his nostrils so that the zircon wiggled, "is Teddy May." "The greatest human being ever to wade through the city's effluvia," added Hartower. "God bless him and rest him in peace." "What's wrong with his right eye?" "Job-related injury," said Prohaska. "He cooked it crawling into a utility duct to fix a ruptured steam line while simultaneously fighting off two alligators with his bare hands..." "Alligators?" Eddie said. "...and then, having taken care of that, he went back topside where the temperature was negative nine degrees Fahrenheit (forty below, factoring in wind chill), this being winter. The transition from hot to cold paralyzed every muscle and nerve in his eyelid." "Wait a minute," Eddie said. "Alligators in the sewers? Wasn't that just a story?" "What story?"
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The Onion A.V. Club | Sewer, Gas & Electric | Matt Ruff
In matt ruff's 2023, the world has become a bit more interesting. Antihumanrobots are being carefully marketed for a takeover of the world.
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Extractions: In Matt Ruff's 2023, the world has become a bit more interesting. Anti-human robots are being carefully marketed for a takeover of the world. The tower of Babel is being rebuilt in northern Manhattan. The black plague has devastated the world's African population. Gunships patrol the sewers of New York, hunting mutant great white sharks. Ecoterrorists have gotten tired of pussyfooting around, and now own their own submarines. And for some reason, the ex-wife of the world's richest man has been enlisted to find out who murdered a sleazy Wall Street trader, and why, with only the bottled ghost of Ayn Rand to help her. Of course, it's part of a global conspiracy. Of course, the fate of the world is at stake. Media Kit Contact Us
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Extractions: http://phttpd.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/books/R/Ruff,Matt.mbox [Verwandte Websites] Matt Ruff - The author's home page. Contains information on his first two books, Fool on the Hill and Sewer, Gas, and Electric. Also has a preview of his upcoming book, Set This House in Order, and recommendations for other reading.

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