The master of the timely grand narrative returns with the characteristically intelligent and engrossing story of four individuals on an island in French Polynesia as it is chosen for the revolutionary purpose of seasteading.
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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
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.
Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory and the Booker-shortlisted Bewilderment.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 2928377267728
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 500 g
Dimensions: 240 x 156 x 28 mm
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