- Taschenbuch: 560 Seiten
- Verlag: Warner Books (September 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0446606421
- ISBN-13: 978-0446606424
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17 x 10,9 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (23 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 233.738 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The closest fictional relatives of Sewer, Gas & Electric may not be books at all but visionary movies like Brazil and Blade Runner. A comic writer and Information Age social satirist of the first water, Matt Ruff has one of the most fertile imaginations you'll come across, and the confident chops to string the fruits of this inventive intelligence together. The story is set in a near-future Manhattan of mile-high skyscraper construction projects, eco-terrorism, man-eating mutant sewer-dwelling white sharks and even more dangerous corporations.
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After an eight-year hiatus (his 1988 novel, Fool on the Hill, became an underground hit), Ruff proves himself still capable of wild-eyed flights of fancy as he pits altruists against antihuman robots in an updated version of Atlas Shrugged above and below the streets of Manhattan. In the year 2023, visionary zillionaire industrialist Harry Gant is building a new Tower of Babel, uptown; his crusading ex- wife Joan is on a search-and-destroy effort in the city sewers, seeking a mutant Jaws-like shark named Meisterbrau; eco-terrorist Philo Dufresne, one of the few blacks remaining after the race- specific pandemic of '04, leads the brilliant, eccentric crew of the submarine Yabba-Dabba-Doo on a nonviolent attack against a Gant-owned ship to save Antarctica; Anderson Teaneck, Wall Street takeover specialist, also with a bead on Gant Industries, is murdered, perhaps by one of his servant robots--who are all carefully programmed, supposedly, to be harmless. Joan has a close encounter with Meisterbrau that leaves them intact but the East River in flames, then is enlisted to solve the Teaneck mystery, a mission that takes her into the heart of a plot hatched by a psychopath and his creation, an artificial brain sheltered in a bunker under Disneyland. Joan also ends up with the querulous companionship of Ayn Rand, reduced to a holograph on a hurricane lamp. Philo and crew, meanwhile, are threatened by the vengeful scheme of a Gant subordinate, as they willingly enter a trap to save what may be the world's last lemurs. Several torpedoes, robot assaults, philosophical debates, and an earthquake later, all is again reasonably right with the world. A careening riot to read, even with all of its zestful improbabilities: Ruff's second novel can only enhance his reputation as a fantasy writer with imagination to burn. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
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Astreines Buch! Ein Lacher jagt den nächsten, eine skurrile Wendung folgt auf die andere.... und obwohl die Charaktere nicht sehr tief gezeichnet sind, wird das Buch niemals flach. Intelligenter, vielschichtiger Humor mit 'ner Menge Stoff zum (hinterher oder während) drüber nachdenken.... Und immer wenn man denkt, den Höhepunkt gerade gelesen zu haben, wird's noch besser, fast bis zur letzten Seite...
intelligent & tremendously funny - you won't ask for more....
intelligent & tremendously funny - you won't ask for more....
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Istanbul!
Appluse, applause...
I just finished reading Matt Ruff's "Sewer, Gas and Electric" and I wish he were here before me so I could give him a one-man standing ovation.
I picked this book up in an airport bookstore, having looked at it several times before. This time, I was caught - I could not resist the ghost of Ayn Rand in a hurricane lamp or the mutant great white nicknamed "Meisterbrau". Five hours later I was breathlessly reading the last page.
So what's good about it? The writing is funny without being condescending or slapstick. The philosophy is interesting for those of us who walked in off the streets without having bought the "Atlas Shrugged" ticket. The characters are amazingly fleshed out, and even the villains have redeeming qualities and sympathetic motives.
I loved Kite (the immortal amputee), the secret history of Disneyland and the vain attempts to kill Meisterbrau, when every knows that the best way to kill a mutant shark is to introduce it to the workings of Ayn Rand.
If you like your humor broad, your books thoughtful and your day weird, this book ought to do the trick.
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After reading Fool on the Hill, I became a huge Matt Ruff fan. Now, after reading Sewer, Gas and Electric, I truly can see why. Ruff again created a cast of characters both outlandish and realistic (well, most of them, at least) and I found myself both flying through the book and hoping it would last longer. If you're a lover of bizarre depictions of the future, one who likes your books to come with some fun, or even an Ayn Rand fan, I think you'll like this a lot.
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it felt so good to throw it away.
i'd made it about one third of the way through this meandering exercise in eco-drivel when the pages of the paperback started peeling themselves out of the binding. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Juni 2000 veröffentlicht
This book has ADD
You know how when you read certain books they hit this emotional chord and you think to yourself, quite irrationally: "I could have written that."? Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juni 2000 von Andrew Boer
The future by Ruff: one seriously funny place to be.
Ruff's cast of characters includes among others: a fabulously well-to-do industrial tycoon; the do-gooder daughter of a leftist nun; a 180-year-old female civil war veteran, a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Januar 2000 von Count Zero
Ayn Rand lamp interesting
Not quite as good as his first book. I really enjoyed the Ayn Rand lamp very much. Also, Dufrense is a great character.
Am 5. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
A mixture of Objectivism, environmentalism, and a lot else.
Ruff creates a story line in which they are miscible (as cogs in a plot, not with each other.)Everyone but "a reader from Tegucicalpa, Honduras" (A sadistic irrational... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Intense
This is one of the first books where I really wanted the "heroes" (Dufresne, Jane, etc.) to die. I was not amused by any of their antics, and really wanted them to fail. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. August 1999 veröffentlicht
herrlich komisch
Noch ein Roman von Matt Ruff: Wie schon "Fool on the Hill" baut Ruff in diesem Buch unglaublich viele verschiedene Handlungsstränge auf, die sich am Ende doch noch... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Readable
Hey Matt, did you go to Stuyvesant High School? And did you have Mr. McCourt as an English teacher? Let me know, dude.
Am 4. August 1999 veröffentlicht
Ruff is an excellent writer but a poor philosopher.
Matt Ruff was obviously shaken from his eco-socialistic foundations upon reading Atlas Shrugged and decided (as so many people do) to defend his views against Ayn Rand's. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
Richard Condon meets Kurt Vonnegut
At the risk of expressing a monority opinion, I laughed out loud a lot of times reading this novel--one of the funniest things I've ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Mai 1999 von Joseph Horton
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