Playground
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Publishing:21st Aug '25
£9.99
This title is due to be published on 21st August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in other editions too:
- Hardback£20.00(9781529154313)
- Hardback - Signed Edition£20.00(9781529154313-S)
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.
Praise for Richard Powers:
'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' GUARDIAN
'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' OBSERVER
'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' OPRAH WINFREY
'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' SUNDAY TIMES
'Refreshing, original and moving' EVENING STANDARD
Powers is a master of taking important topics of our times – from threats to our oceans and climate change to AI – and turning them into riveting and fiercely relevant books imbued with psychological insight and a deep awe for nature. This eloquent dance of the scientific and emotional makes him one of our finest story tellers. PLAYGROUND is brilliant, captivating and important -- Andrea Wulf
Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive -- Percival Everett
An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting -- Emma Donoghue
This ambitious, rapturous Booker-longlisted epic explores life underwater, generative AI, climate crisis and the power of play * Guardian *
Playground ... isn't merely a great American novel, but a magnificent one * i Newspaper *
ISBN: 9781804950821
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 200g
288 pages