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Richard Powers: Playground (2024, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing …

Our tangled dependence on both extraction & love of the natural world

The glorious wonder of the ocean, the fraught love of competitive friends, our tangled dependence on both extraction & love of the natural world, the tempting appeal of AI. Felt like there was too much to wrap up in so short a space, but he pulls it off remarkably, leaving an uncertainty as to what was real and what imagined or simulated.