Playground

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His most recent book <i>The Overstory</i> won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.|<p>PLAYGROUND follows four lives &#8211; a marine biologist an artist a schoolteacher and an AI pioneer &#8211; that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading humanity&#8217;s next great adventure.</p><p>Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE OVERSTORY and the Booker-shortlisted BEWILDERMENT.<br><br><b><u>Praise for Richard Powers:</u></b><br><br>'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' <b>GUARDIAN</b><br>'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' <b>OBSERVER</b><br>'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' <b>OPRAH WINFREY</b><br>'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' <b>SUNDAY TIMES</b><br>'Refreshing original and moving' <b>EVENING STANDARD</b><br></p>|Powers is a master of taking important topics of our times &#8211; from threats to our oceans and climate change to AI &#8211; and turning them into riveting and fiercely relevant books imbued with psychological insight and a deep awe for nature. This eloquent dance of the scientific and emotional makes him one of our finest story tellers.<b> PLAYGROUND is brilliant captivating and important</b>|Along with its environmental warnings the book carries an intriguing look at the ways people and animals play as in the boys&#8217; competitive chess the antics of manta rays the allure of computer games and what a meta-minded author might do with his readers. <b>An engaging eloquent message for this fragile planet.</b>|<b>Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete seductive and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast mysterious deep and alive</b>|<b>An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping alarming and uplifting</b>