I have said before that I love both Martin Millar and Douglas Coupland quite a lot. Well, Matt Ruff’s Fool on the Hill is like if Martin Millar and Douglas Coupland had a love child, and Douglas Coupland raised the kid because Martin Millar lived too far away, but the kid grew up reading Martin Millar’s books obsessively, and then the kid went to Cornell for college. I feel like that sequence of events could have produced Fool on the Hill. Fool on the Hill is a story about Cornell University (ever heard of it?), if Cornell University had fairies…
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