Playground - Richard Powers

A York Times Bestseller Longlisted For The Booker Prize 2024 The Powerful Novel From The Pulitzer Prize-winning And Booker-shortlisted Author Of The Overstory And Bewilderment Powerful, Mesmerically Beautiful Mail On Sunday One Long, Clever Magic Trick Observer Magisterial, Moving And Thought-provoking A Beautiful Love Letter To Our Oceans Scientist Playground Follows Four Lives - A Pioneering Marine Biologist, A -spirited Artist, And Two Polar Opposites Whose Boyhood Bond Over A Three-thousand-year-old Board Game Sends One Into Literature And The Other Onto An Ai Breakthrough. In The Worlds Largest Ocean, The Four Are Reunited On A History-scarred French Polynesian Island Chosen As The Site For Seasteading - Sending Floating, Autonomous Cities Into The Open Sea. Standing On The Shores Of The Last Wild Place Yet To Be Colonised, The Residents Must First Vote To Decide If Their Home Will Become The Launchpad For Humanitys Next Great Adventure.