Spies like who? or RIP M.R.D. Foot

[Michael Bailey]

rich  wrote:

> Matt Ruff's The Mirage wasn't too bad--an enjoyable read somewhat marred by
> the ending but he pulls off the alternate world shtick rather well--United
> States of Arabia vs. Christian terrorists based in an Afghan/Iraq like
> America-Texas is Kuwait, Baghdad is NYC, etc.
>

Matt Ruff's still writing!  awesome blossom, I liked his Sewer Gas and
Electric trilogy a lot - cocking a snook at Ayn Rand, alligators in
the sewers...between that and Fool on the Hill with major Cornell
theme I was thinking Pynchon was writing under a pseudonym for
awhile...