Richard Powers

A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe....

Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old....

PLAYGROUND follows four lives – a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer – that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity’s next great adventure....

Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and with his aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the nature of his sickness....

Stuart Ressler, an up-and-coming molecular biologist, finds his career sidetracked by the turmoil of the '60s, and a young couple of the 1980s tries to discover why the biologist abandoned his scientific pursuits....

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments of innocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers' brilliant and compelling novel....

After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US where a cognitive neurologist involves him in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books....

Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body plunges into a new existence when she learns she has ovarian cancer. In the other, soap manufacturer Clare & Company grows into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown....

Wie kann eine Familie in einer unberechenbaren Welt überleben, ohne zu zerbrechen? Vater und Sohn allein: Der hochbegabte Robbie mit...

Set against the backdrop of postwar America, The Time of Our Singing is a magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted - and divided - family....

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral....

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award....

ine Insel. Vier Suchende. Verbunden durch das vielleicht letzte große Abenteuer der Menschheit. – Das bewegende Meisterwerk vom Pulitzer-Preisträger...