History Literature / SewerGasAndElectric

* WhyAmITicking: A subplot involves [[spoiler:a [[AcceptableTargets 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:[[IronicHell earn $1000 by begging in Grand Central, and feed all the bills through a shredder attached to the collar]]. Naturally, people are [[FromBadToWorse less likely to give him money when they see what he's doing with it]]...]]

!!!This book provides examples of the following tropes:

* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Mutant sharks especially.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Lexa Thatcher, Philo Dufresne [[ThreeWaySex and Toshiro Goodhead]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* BestIsAverageBetterIsBest: 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.

** One of the shark-bait sewer workers points out the FridgeLogic in a scene from ''Film/ANewHope''.

* BrickJoke: During the eco-terrorists' opening move against a toxic-waste dumper, it's mentioned in passing that their hackers' bots call every pizza place in Manhatten to request a delivery to Gant's office. The later conversation between Gant and his underlings over the resulting media brouhaha ends when Crowd Control calls up from the Phoenix's ground floor to ask if he'd ordered two thousand pizzas.

* BrickJoke: During the eco-terrorists' opening move against a toxic-waste dumper, it's mentioned in passing that their hackers' bots call every pizza place in Manhatten to request a delivery to Gant's office. The later conversation between Gant and his underlings over the resulting media brouhaha ends when Crowd Control calls up from the Phoenix's ground floor to ask if he'd ordered ten thousand pizzas.

* [[spoiler:AIIsACrapshoot: G. A. S. and the Eye of Africa.]]

''Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy'' opens up with a crazy businessman building the tower of Babel in NewYorkCity, and a hapless 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 Creator/MattRuff, it's a novel of ecoterrorism, mad [=AIs=], {{absurdly spacious sewer}}s and an AI construct of Creator/AynRand spouting [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} objectivist philosophy]] and generally having melting down arguments with the rest of the cast.

''Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy'' opens up with a crazy businessman building the tower of Babel in NewYorkCity, 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 Creator/MattRuff, it's a novel of ecoterrorism, mad [=AIs=], {{absurdly spacious sewer}}s and an AI construct of Creator/AynRand spouting [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} objectivist philosophy]] and generally having melting down arguments with the rest of the cast.

* TakeThat: ''AtlasShrugged'' is acerbically dissected by Joan.

* TheCrocIsTicking: Once Meisterbrau swallows a cellphone.

* EyeScream: 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.]]

* DeathByIrony: There are one hundred of them. [[spoiler: Orchestrated by the BigBad.]]

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* Xenofiction: In-universe, Dufresne's attempt at a first novel is written from the POV of whales and dolphins.