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  • Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
    • Sewer, Gas & Electric — frequently asked questions
    • Sewer, Gas & Electric — the origins of the story
    • Sewer, Gas & Electric — soundtrack
  • Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
    • Set This House in Order — frequently asked questions
    • Set This House in Order — the origins of the story
    • Set This House in Order — soundtrack
  • Bad Monkeys
    • Bad Monkeys — frequently asked questions
    • Bad Monkeys — the origins of the story
    • Bad Monkeys — soundtrack
    • The Bad Monkeys puzzle contest
      • In an undisclosed location
      • In the white room
      • Homo sapiens
      • In which Jutta and her friends solve a puzzle…
  • The Mirage
    • The Mirage — frequently asked questions
  • Lovecraft Country
    • Lovecraft Country — frequently asked questions
    • A reader’s guide to Lovecraft Country
      • The real Safe Negro Travel Guide
      • Sundown towns
      • African-American homeownership in the era of legal segregation
      • The Tulsa Massacre of 1921
      • Dispatches from the 1954 Chicago Defender
      • For further reading
  • 88 Names
    • 88 Names: A Theory of Mind
  • The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country
    • The Destroyer of Worlds — frequently asked questions
  • About the author
    • “An Interesting Moral Education”
  • Interviews, FAQs & Addenda
  • Interviews, FAQs & Addenda
  • A brief introduction to my published novels
  • A (mostly) complete bibliography of my published novels
  • Unpublished works & ephemera
    • Venus Envy
      • Venus Envy — prologue
      • Venus Envy — frequently asked questions
    • “Dear Abby”
    • “Cannibals & Bibliophiles”
    • Review of “A Life in Pieces,” by Richard K. Baer
    • 2005 Tiptree Award lists
    • Risleyians vidcaps
    • Morningstar
    • Congress: the Gathering
bymattruff.com

This is the author Matt Ruff's website

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Readings and other appearances
  • Contact
  • Fool on the Hill
    • Fool on the Hill — frequently asked questions
    • Fool on the Hill — soundtrack
  • Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
    • Sewer, Gas & Electric — frequently asked questions
    • Sewer, Gas & Electric — the origins of the story
    • Sewer, Gas & Electric — soundtrack
  • Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
    • Set This House in Order — frequently asked questions
    • Set This House in Order — the origins of the story
    • Set This House in Order — soundtrack
  • Bad Monkeys
    • Bad Monkeys — frequently asked questions
    • Bad Monkeys — the origins of the story
    • Bad Monkeys — soundtrack
    • The Bad Monkeys puzzle contest
      • In an undisclosed location
      • In the white room
      • Homo sapiens
      • In which Jutta and her friends solve a puzzle…
  • The Mirage
    • The Mirage — frequently asked questions
  • Lovecraft Country
    • Lovecraft Country — frequently asked questions
    • A reader’s guide to Lovecraft Country
      • The real Safe Negro Travel Guide
      • Sundown towns
      • African-American homeownership in the era of legal segregation
      • The Tulsa Massacre of 1921
      • Dispatches from the 1954 Chicago Defender
      • For further reading
  • 88 Names
    • 88 Names: A Theory of Mind
  • The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country
    • The Destroyer of Worlds — frequently asked questions
  • About the author
    • “An Interesting Moral Education”
  • Interviews, FAQs & Addenda
  • Interviews, FAQs & Addenda
  • A brief introduction to my published novels
  • A (mostly) complete bibliography of my published novels
  • Unpublished works & ephemera
    • Venus Envy
      • Venus Envy — prologue
      • Venus Envy — frequently asked questions
    • “Dear Abby”
    • “Cannibals & Bibliophiles”
    • Review of “A Life in Pieces,” by Richard K. Baer
    • 2005 Tiptree Award lists
    • Risleyians vidcaps
    • Morningstar
    • Congress: the Gathering

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July 11, 2007 / By Matt Ruff / a series of tubes, livejournal

Via Andrew Sullivan: the Skull-A-Day blog.

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