Sewer Gas & Electric is the exuberant follow-up to Matt Ruff's cult classic and critically
acclaimed debut Fool on the Hill.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.
