Matt Ruff

Published works Ruff's first novel, Fool on the Hill, is a fantasy that drew on his experiences living in Risley Residential College at Cornell. It was first written as his senior thesis in Honors English. It was published shortly after Ruff graduated from the university.

His second book, Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, is postcyberpunk.

His third book, Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, focuses on two protagonists displaying a fictionalized version of dissociative identity disorder; while not technically science fiction, it nonetheless contains significant speculative elements.

Fool on the Hill (1988) – Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997) – Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (2003) – Bad Monkeys (2007) – The Mirage (2012) – (; ) Lovecraft Country (2016) – (; ) 88 Names (2020) – (; ) The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country (2023) –

Awards Set This House in Order was long-listed for the 2005 International Dublin Literary Award and won the 2007 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a PNBA Book Award, and a Washington State Book Award. Ruff is also the recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose

Bad Monkeys received the 2008 Washington State Book Award for Fiction, a PNBA Book Award, and an Alex Award.

The Mirage was nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

Lovecraft Country was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2017 in the Novel category.