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	The Michigan Daily Online
		Ruff's novel, subtitled "The Public Works Trilogy," is an updating of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" - in this surreal and futuristic version, the self-sacrificing liberals are the heroes.
		Ruff stated that a 1935 New York Times article reported the sighting of a 7-foot alligator in a sewer.
		Ruff said his next book would probably be a departure from the style of this one.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1997/mar/03-12-97/arts/arts3.html (590 words)

	Salon \| Sneak Peeks
		True to the form, Ruff assembles a wild plethora of characters, including a scatterbrained technology mogul, a female ex-pornographer turned investigative journalist and a band of environmentalist pirates in a green-and-pink submarine.
		Ruff throws around a lot of brainy references, but they don't bog down the plot.
		Ruff doesn't have anything particularly new to say about it, though, so his assaults, while enjoyable, aren't particularly enlightening.
	www.salon.com /feb97/sneaks/sneak970218.html (447 words)

	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Matt Ruff, Neal Stephenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ruff owes a considerable debt to Neal Stephenson -- in particular, Stephenson's Snow Crash -- in its prose style and conceptualization of the future.
		Ruff says that the storyline of Sewer, Gas, and Electric is loosely based on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
		Ruff is definitely a talent to watch, and you could do worse than Sewer, Gas, and Electric.
	www.unc.edu /~chague/bkrvw/2-16-98.HTM (1688 words)

	Laughin' With Ayn: Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas & Electric
		Comprising three parts, Ruff pulls the Competent Capitalist from Atlas (this time a kind of a goodtimes hippie at heart), and follows the travails of his empire as it is set upon by the Bad Guys.
		Ruff's Strange New world has filled the void left by the fl plague with an army of humanoid robots called Electric Servants, polite, deferential and helpful entities whose most popular color is fl.
		Ruff takes one of the most philosophically bankrupt and yet widely read books of the last fifty years, Atlas Shrugged, and puts it in its place with intelligence and good humor.
	www.strangewords.com /archive/ruff.html (607 words)

	Mount Machebeuf
		Ryan and Matt were relatively new to hiking, but since I had been on the southwest ridge of Machebeuf, I was confident we could all make it.
		Matt was trailing the group some, so Dan stayed with him while Ryan and I continued up through a small chute to the ridgeline.
		Dan, Matt, and Ryan on the approach up Herman Gulch with the southwest ridge of Machabeuf in the background.
	justhiking.com /hikes/2005/03-22mach/mach.htm (852 words)

	Ensemble cast of two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Three-time novelist Matt Ruff's third opus is a stunning feat of literary craftsmanship.
		What is amazing is that Ruff has managed to make of this material a novel that is not only gripping for all of its 479 pages, but also at times laugh-out-loud funny.
		Ruff is particularly well attuned to the ways in which so-called normal people can be just as pathological, delusional and/or self-destructive as others who carry the label of a clinical diagnosis.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/09/RV195518.DTL (846 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Fool on the Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ruff shapes an adventure for his protagonist that includes everything from poisoned apples to winged dragons, all set on a campus where there isn't a professor in sight and where the actions of dogs, cats and invisible sprites are as meaningful as those of the students.
		Ruff uses the stock motifs of fairy tale and myth, but his treatment is remarkably inventive.
		Inspired by the mysterious Calliope, Ruff's hero learns to write without paper and thus, by the force of his imagination, to revise the mundane scenario of life in Ithaca.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802135358 (1338 words)

	READ Magazine - Matt Ruff Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Matt Ruff's style is similar to two other Cornell alumni - Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
		Superficially, Ruff's books are engaging and fun, but they're also filled with satirical insights at not just our society and beliefs, but the genres themselves that he writes in.
		Matt Ruff's new book, Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls is published by HarperCollins and is in stores now.
	www.readmag.com /Interviews/mattruff.htm (4025 words)

	Powell's Books - Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff
		Seattle author Matt Ruff presents one of the most inventive and addictive novels of recent memory.
		The challenge that Ruff sets himself is more than fully met, with a cohesive narrative that builds up speed to a satisfying climax and a poignant final chapter.
		Ruff includes some astonishing twists to the plot, but he never veers from the believable.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-006095485x-0 (560 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Fool on the Hill
		Matt Ruff's first novel, Fool on the Hill, written when he was just 23, has recently been reissued in paperback, no doubt to satisfy readers such as myself who upon finishing Sewer, Gas and Electric rushed out to their local bookstore to get more of this guy.
		Ruff seems to know this, as he provides an explanation of these sophomoric literary references in a scene where Aurora asks George why she is telling him about the novelist/songwriter and former Cornell student Richard Fariña:
		It will be real interesting to see how Ruff further matures in his next work; unfortunately, taking two years to write the first and four to complete the second, the wait might be long.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/fool33.htm (934 words)

	Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff - read review
		Ruff also has the ability to draw a character so vividly, that I started thinking of Andy and Penny’s other personalities as legitimate characters in this book.
		It’s Ruff’s ability to put it all in coherent fashion and lead me to understand just what a job it must for MPD’s to “set their house in order.” I thank Matt Ruff for giving me a glimpse into this fascinating world.
		Matt Ruff was born in 1965 and grew up in Queens, New York.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/ruff.htm (1210 words)

	Metroland Online - Books
		Ruff doesn’t quite keep control, but his rambunctious energy sweeps you through his not altogether coherent plot.
		Speaking much more quietly, Ruff’s new book takes place in the real world of the present.
		In this “romance of souls,” the author’s effortlessly inventive imagination explores the complicated life of two young people, both of whom have multiple personalities.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_26_no21/books.html (891 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		While it does help, Ruff gives enough descriptions that the uninitiated will be able to enjoy.
		These little people, it turns out, are actually responsible for the fact that the Clock Tower Chimes keep working after all this time, and for keeping files straight, and other little things that seem to happen for the good that noone remembers doing.
		Something tells me Matt Ruff will be a name to know in the future.
	phttpd.www.lysator.liu.se /sf_archive/sf-texts/books/R/Ruff,Matt.mbox (724 words)

	Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff \| PopMatters Book Review
		Matt Ruff claims he doesn't suffer from multiple personality disorder, the very condition that ails the two main characters in his third novel, Set This House in Order.
		Ruff is adept at relating the abuse that led to both Andy's and Penny's fractured selves without letting the book become too gruesome in the details or empty in glossing them over.
		Aside from lending the characters more life, Ruff's understanding of MPD has the additional benefit of giving the reader a better sense of what it entails, and just how serious it can be.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/s/set-this-house-in-order.shtml (1455 words)

	Matt Ruff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Buffoon-puncturing sarcasm and parodic invention aside, Ruff is, at heart, a gentle humanist and his books prove ultimately uplifting.
		Ruff majored in creative writing at Cornell University (Ithaca's landscape is as much a factor in Fool on the Hill's title as the Beatles are).
		Matt Ruff will be reading on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/022097/article001.shtml (949 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sewer Gas and Electric: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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 evil person), seems to think that this book is hilarious.
		Although Ruff obviously does not understand Ayn Rand, his humorous dialogue including her is brilliant satire.
		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.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0446606421 (822 words)

	Hey Kids! BOOKS!
		Matt Ruff began his literary career by writing Fool On The Hill, a fantasy set at Cornell University.
		Last year, Matt Ruff released Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, which is sort of cyberpunkish, but with the same sense of fun as Fool On The Hill.
		I found the Matt Ruff Fan Club, and I found this, which is kinda interesting.
	www.eyrie.org /~tick/books.html (817 words)

	Emerald City - #105
		Matt was also Pubs head for Penguicon, as well as their guest liaison for con mascot Tux the penguin, later to be seen wandering around the con in his red Starfleet uniform.
		Ruff accepts that genuine MPD is the result of child abuse, although only of the most extreme kind.
		But Ruff’s hero, Andy Gage, has opted for an alternative treatment in which he accepts that the various people in his head are all individuals in their own right, and comes to an arrangement between them regarding control of the body.
	www.emcit.com /emcit105.shtml (19093 words)

	JAMES TIPTREE JR. MEMORIAL AWARD ANNOUNCED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Ruff's award will be presented at WisCon 28, to be held on Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31, 2004, in Madison, Wisconsin.
		Ruff will receive $1000 in prize money, an original artwork created specifically for this year's award by Georgie Schnobrich of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the signature chocolate that always accompanies the Tiptree Award.
		The judges were particularly impressed with the way Ruff handled gender issues in multiple personality, as a reflection of the difference of gender of the body and gender of the mind (or soul).
	www.tiptree.org /press/20040330.html (1048 words)

	Review of SET THIS HOUSE IN ORDER by Matt Ruff
		Ruff's handling of the multiple personalities is both inventive and sensitive.
		I like that Ruff avoids the trap of a clichéd, sappy ending, instead making it clear that there are no easy solutions.
		Ruff's plot was engrossing in all its twists and turns, and only one late section seemed to jump a bit off the tracks.
	www.booksforabuck.com /genfict/set_house_order.html (381 words)

	Arts - Literature - Authors - R - Ruff, Matt - Newsletter - News - Reviews - Education - Ratings
		Author Matt Ruff's Home Page This web site was last modified on 10/16/05 A]s a script doctor I’ve been called in more than a few times, and the issue is always the same 147;We want you to make the third...
		Matt Ruff reads the first chapter of Sewer, Gas, and Electric on scifi.com's Seeing Ear Theatre.
		Laughin With Ayn: Matt Ruff's Sewer, Gas Electric Electric is a wonderful sendup and parody of Ayn Rand's ponderous classic, Atlas Shrugged.
	www.newsletter-library.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/R/Ruff,_Matt (317 words)

	Matt Ruff -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Matt Ruff is an author who graduated from (A university in Ithaca, New York) Cornell University.
		What appears to be novel about a scuril and in a way fascinating future is indeed a bitter comment on what might actually develop out of recent (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York in a nearby future.
		The novel has been long-listed for the 2005 (Click link for more info and facts about International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has already won the 2003 (Click link for more info and facts about James Tiptree, Jr.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/matt_ruff.htm (339 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Subtitled “A Romance of Souls,” Matt Ruff’s third novel (Fool on the Hill; Sewer, Gas and Electric) is essentially a love story of sorts between two people suffering from multiple personality disorder.
		This novel is narrated entirely by Andy Gage, a twenty-six-year-old who through therapy was able to create a workable system for living with her twenty-plus personalities.
		Ruff is a decent writer, although his earlier books (especially Sewer, Gas and Electric) were much funnier, riskier, and more interesting.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/03_3/house.html (270 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Sewer, Gas & Electric
		Matt Ruff takes on Catholicism, feminism, ethnicism, ecology, political correctness (he calls it P.U. -- "philosophically untenable"), and Ayn Rand's Objectivism.
		I think that Matt Ruff was trying to have the debate he never had during his philosophy courses.
		Matt Ruff's first book was Fool on the Hill.
	www.sfsite.com /09b/sew17.htm (610 words)

	Powell's Books - Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
		When that voice achieves its newness not through a certain formal facility but through the freshness of its vision, there is truly something to celebrate.
		Matt Ruff was only twenty-two when Fool on the Hill was first published, but with his novel he gave us a story that won over readers of every persuasion.
		"Matt Ruff's novel is a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit; it marks the start of what should be a remarkable career."
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0802135358-0 (519 words)

	IHSA Boys Baseball Class AA State Final Results
		Mattoon 1st: Matt Ruff pops out to short center (1 out).
		Ruff walks on 4 pitches to load the bases.
		Ruff is picked off 1st base 1-3-1 (2 outs).
	www.ihsa.org /activity/ba/1996-97/2box6.htm (575 words)

	Richard Hugo House's 6th Annual Inquiry: Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Matt Levin is twelve years old, and a seventh grade student.
		Matt Ruff was born in New York City in 1965.
		Ruff lives in Seattle with his wife, Lisa Gold.
	www.hugohouse.org /programs/games_bios.html (2992 words)

	Crescent Blues Book Views \| Matt Ruff: Set this House in Order
		In Matt Ruff's Set This House in Order, Andrew Gage serves as the public persona of a body containing a host of "souls." Severely abused as a child, the original Andy Gage's soul shattered into many, each possessing memories, needs and an agenda of its own.
		Ruff doesn't concern himself with the controversy, and presents Andrew and Penny as honest-to-god multiples.
		By combining his penchant for the bizarre with engaging and believable characters, Ruff has written a truly memorable story and proves himself an author to watch.
	www.crescentblues.com /6_2issue/bk_ruff_house.shtml (521 words)

	Matt Ruff Fan Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		att Ruff is a story teller who appears to be very good at telling lies for a living.
		I have it on order from Spamazon.com; when I get it, I'm sure that it will be read within 24 hours, and soon thereafter there will be some sort of review here.
		Excerpts from "Fool on the Hill" are © the Author, (Matt Ruff) and his publishing company and are used without permission.
	www.soroos.net /personal/ruff.html (432 words)

	Review: Sewer, Gas & Electric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In Matt Ruff's fevered imagining of the year 2023, we meet Harry Gant, a billionaire industrialist and all-around nice guy, who is engaged in building the world's tallest building in Manhattan.
		Hagbard Celine's war on the Illuminati holds the reader despite the repellent sex scenes and cracked conspiracies.
		Ruff's actors are so handicapped by malignant irony that they appear completely detached in the face of armies of mechanized terrorists, genocidal computers, and mutated sewer-dwelling sharks.
	www.libertysoft.com /liberty/reviews/63bartels.html (610 words)

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