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Sewer, Gas & Electric
Matt Ruff
出版
Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
, 2007-12-01
主題
Fiction / Science Fiction / Humorous
Fiction / Satire
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0802198457
9780802198457
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DfawmWaLC8QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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A satire of a surreal technocratic future by the national-bestselling author of
Lovecraft Country:
“Dizzyingly readable” (Thomas Pynchon).
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, in this wild romp by the acclaimed author of
Fool on the Hill
and
Lovecraft Country
.
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 them, and many more besides, are about to be caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots . . .
“[An] SF roller-coaster satirizing the horrors of our nascent technocracy . . . Told with breezy good humor, this exuberantly silly tale will find an audience among admirers of the day-glo surrealism of Steve Erickson and the tangled conspiracy theories of David Foster Wallace.” —
Publishers Weekly
“A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower.” —Neal Stephenson
