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100 1 $aRuff, Matt.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87841039
245 10 $aSewer, gas & electric :$bthe public works trilogy : a novel /$cby Matt Ruff.
246 3 $aSewer, gas, and electric
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axi, 450 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThe year is 2023. High above the canyons of Manhattan, a crew of human and android steelworkers is approaching the halfway point in the construction of a new Tower of Babel. The Tower is the brainchild of billionaire Harry Gant, who is building it as a monument to humanity's power to dream. Meanwhile, on the streets (and below), a darker game is afoot: A Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Harry's ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why.
520 8 $aAccompanying her is philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand, resurrected from the dead by computer and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's unwilling assistant. While Rand vainly attempts to tutor her in "the virtue of selfishness," Joan discovers that the murder is the key to a much larger mystery - one in which millions of lives may hang in the balance.
520 8 $aThe world of Sewer, Gas & Electric includes such characters as submarine eco-terrorist Philo Dufrense; his daughter, Seraphina, who lives in the walls of the New York Public Library; newspaper publisher Lexa Thatcher, whose Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; and Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark who swims in the sewer tunnels beneath Times Square - all of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J.
520 8 $aEdgar Hoover, and an army of homicidal robots.
600 10 $aRand, Ayn$vFiction.
650 0 $aTwenty-first century$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112901
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108377
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aFantasy fiction.$2gsafd
852 00 $bglx$hPS3568.U3615$iS49 1997