Playground - a Novel

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Richard Powers: Playground - a Novel (2024, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.)

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Published 2024 by Norton & Company Limited, W. W..

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978-1-324-08939-1
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5 stars (1 review)

8 editions

Fiction to broaden the world view

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(texto integral com links, em português → sol2070.in/2024/09/livro-playground-richard-powers/ )

"Playground" (2024, 400 pgs.) by Richard Powers was one of the books I was most looking forward to. After all, "The Overstory" was probably the best fiction I've ever read -- I wrote about this last year and it still holds up.

It didn't disappoint. It's magnificent speculative fiction (bordering on science fiction), now forming the author's ecological trilogy, with "The Overstory" (2018) and "Bewilderment" (2021). Instead of the word ‘ecological’, he prefers the term ‘trilogy about belonging to the world’, in the sense that it goes against the dominant narrative that humans, because of a supposed superiority, are practically beyond nature and can then do whatever they want with it. This is at the root of the current environmental emergency. In these books, nature is not something separate, a backdrop or a source of resources. It is the protagonist. Nature …