false 71846 10 <div>Sewer, Gas & Electric is the exuberant follow-up to Matt Ruff's cult classic and critically acclaimed debut Fool on the Hill.<br>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.</div> 69565 1994 Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy total:465|5:146|4:164|3:117|2:31|1:7| 465 1806 659 64 1 1 true false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 08:09:18 -0800 2007 Fri Apr 03 00:31:02 -0700 2009
Yeah, this book is crap.

This book was very bad. It is not genius, clever, or even that interesting. The characters are not developed in any rea...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 04 13:42:33 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 07 12:15:28 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 20 11:41:26 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 12:17:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 22:51:13 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 23:11:37 -0700 2009 "Thanks also to the New York Times, newspaper of record, for confirming that even in a rational universe, 'far-fetched' is a relative term. In an article dated February 10, 1935, the Times recounts the story of a group of teenager...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 18:50:15 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 11:52:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 20 03:13:19 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 05:58:15 -0700 2009
This book... honestly, it bugged the crap out of me. From other reviews, I'm getting tha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 13:45:49 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 13:51:19 -0800 2009 Douglas Adams and Christopher Moore had a literary love-child, the result might be Matt Ruff. This was an absurd, utterly bizarre, politically incorrect, and highly entertaining novel. At the end of the day, it's a sci-fi artificial-intelligence-wants-to-rid-the-world-of-humanity kind of story. B...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Jul 07 12:55:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:07:16 -0700 2009
That's pretty much the only way to describe this book. I loved it, I don't really remember the entire plot even though I've read it at least 4 times, and I'm pretty sure the plot made sense when I read it. What sticks with me are the vivid images in my head of certain scenes and mo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 13:02:05 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 13:10:25 -0800 2009
An extra nod for t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 05 14:37:50 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:37:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 22 22:05:25 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 22:19:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Nov 11 14:48:51 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 15:31:36 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 08:18:43 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 10:12:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 05:53:36 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 06:03:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:43:11 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 16:58:20 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 23 14:22:38 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 14:25:58 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Thu Dec 18 14:22:14 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 14:23:28 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 09:32:34 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 09:34:34 -0700 2009
it also really makes me want to be an eco-pirate with a submarine called the yabba-dabba-doo!]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 11:09:44 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 11:10:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Feb 04 11:06:25 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 11:06:25 -0800 2009