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''Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy'' opens up with a crazy businessman building the tower of Babel in New York City, and a hapeless new hire to the Department of Sewers being eaten by a sewer-dwelling mutant great white shark. It's 2023, and New York is on the brink of a giant earthquake, and that's the least of the city's problems. Penned by [[Matt Ruff]], it's a novel of ecoterrorism, mad AIs, [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|absurdly spacious sewers]] and an AI construct of [[Ayn Rand]] spouting objectivist philosophy and generally having melting down arguments with the rest of the cast.▼
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▲'''''Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy''''' opens up with a crazy businessman building the tower of Babel in New York City, and a hapeless new hire to the Department of Sewers being eaten by a sewer-dwelling mutant great white shark. It's 2023, and New York is on the brink of a giant earthquake, and that's the least of the city's problems. Penned by [[Matt Ruff]], it's a novel of ecoterrorism, mad AIs, [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|absurdly spacious sewers]] and an AI construct of [[Ayn Rand]] spouting objectivist philosophy and generally having melting down arguments with the rest of the cast.
Despite the title, this is not a book trilogy.
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* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Under New York City. The sewers even have their own ecosystem.
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* [[Best Is Average, Better Is Best]]: When two employees of Gant have to decide which is the best kind of toothpaste. One of them finds this trope is the solution, which is correct.
* [[Big Applesauce]]: A great deal of the book takes place in New York.
* [[The Croc Is Ticking]]: Once Meisterbrau swallows a cellphone.
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Befitting her philosophy, Artificial Ayn Rand has great difficulties understanding jokes.
* [[Death
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Eye Scream]]: The "Shiva's Heat weapon". {{spoiler|It consists of a laser, which scans the landscape for reflecting surfaces like binoculars or glasses, and in case of a discovery is tuned to full power to burn out the eyes of anyone in range.}}
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: {{spoiler|Meisterbrau eventually unfolds wings.}}
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* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Maxwell and Troubadour Penzias. Both are rather insane, in different ways.
* [[Take That]]: ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' is acerbically dissected by Joan.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Harry Gant's mother is a tall, husky construction forewoman, while his father is a short, rather frail history buff.
* [[War Is Hell]]: A recurring theme. Several characters are insane [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|Shell Shocked Veterans]], and Kite stopped viewing war as an adventure when the actual killing began.
* [[Why Am I Ticking?]]: A subplot involves {{spoiler|a [[Acceptable Targets|greedy capitalist]]}} who has been fitted with an explosive collar. It will go off in twenty-four hours, killing him, unless he manages to {{spoiler|[[Ironic Hell|earn $1000 by begging in Grand Central, and feed all the bills through a shredder attached to the collar]]. Naturally, people are [[It Got Worse|less likely to give him money when they see what he's doing with it]]...}}
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[[Category:Literature of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Thriller Literature]]
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