Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Playground by Richard Powers review – an electrifyingly beautiful tale of tech and the ocean | Fiction | The Guardian

Richard Powers's 2018 Pulitzer-winning book The Overstory was one of the landmark novels of the past decade. Grounded in science and animist thought, it was a glorious ode to the wondrousness of trees. Bewilderment (2021) interleaved private loss and climate collapse to recount the grief-soaked journey of an astrobiologist and his neurodivergent son. Both these novels were set in the US. In Playground, his cerebral, Booker-longlisted new novel, Powers swivels part of his attention to French Polynesia, taking on neo-colonialism, artificial intelligence and oceanography...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/29/playground-richard-powers-review-ai-ocean

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