#richard-powers — Public Fediverse posts
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the above mentioned book Bewilderment by #RichardPowers is a GEM.
[i don't read [cis] male authors but bc of a very good reason - and for Powers the many reasons are be-au-ti-ful writing prose, excellent techie stuff, all the best and current nature as well as climate blisses - AND horrors!], marvelous info bits about astro and space science AND [!] genious capture of [male] emotions.]
Also very much loved his book before this one, The Overstory.
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Happy #ArborDay ! I’m 39% through #theOverstory by #richardPowers and as a result I am currently obsessed with #trees
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After I read The Overstory and Bewilderment I decided to read everything by #RichardPowers. I’m trying to spread them out amongst other stuff as treats. I’m on The Time of Our Singing now. I’ve a long way to go but I’m always amazed at how much knowledge/research goes into these books. How does this guy know so much about so many subjects?? Does he have a team to help? I’m distracted by my awe for him.
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Warner Bros Lands AI-Themed ‘Playground’ For Timothée Chalamet & Plan B
#News #BrianSwardstrom #PlanB #Playground #RichardPowers #TimothéeChalamet #WarnerBroshttps://deadline.com/2026/03/timothee-chalamet-plan-b-playground-warner-bros-ai-themed-1236761538/
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Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/24/richard-powers-music/
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I hate to say it, but I'm about to give up on #RichardPowers "Gold bug variations". I absolutely loved #Overstory and #Bewildered, and mostly adored #Playground.
But this one is dense. Lots of complex sentences and non-stop clever metaphors. I find myself re-reading pages several times to understand them. The story and characters feel secondary to the allusions and florid description.
10% in, and that may be my limit :/
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📖 #vendrediLecture n°35
Richard POWERS, Un Jeu sans fin.
Un roman qui parle d' #intelligenceartificielle, du #jeudego, d'amitié, de #plongeesousmarine et de la Polynésie.
#books
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #ocean #Mastolivre #roman # baduk #AI #polynesie #Makatea
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"Before the earth,
before the moon,
before the stars,before the sun,
before the sky,
even before the sea,there was only time and Ta'aroa.
Ta'aroa made Ta'aroa. Then he made an egg that could house him."
-- #FirstSentences (or rather, first lines) of Richard Powers, *Playground*
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Started this morning. Looking forward to spending some time with this one.Edited to add #ReadingNotes tag.
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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“This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived” –Richard Powers, The #Overstory
#PhotoFriday #GiantSequoia #trees #redwoods #YosemiteNationalPark #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #RichardPowers
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[#LEspritCritique] L’esprit critique «littérature»: trois romans risqués
Notre podcast culturel discute de «Toutes les vies de Théo», signé #NathalieAzoulai, de «J’écris l’Iliade», nouveau livre de #PierreMichon, et du dernier roman de l’États-Unien #RichardPowers, intitulé «Un jeu sans fin».
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‘De echte kracht van literatuur is dat ze ons leert begrijpen hoe we allemaal gecompromitteerd zijn.’
De Amerikaanse auteur Richard Powers windt er geen doekjes om: de klimaatcatastrofe en het uitsterven van soorten vallen niet meer te negeren, ook niet in de #literatuur. En hij gelooft rotsvast dat een goed verhaal ons de ogen kan openen.
https://apache.be/2024/11/29/richard-powers-verhalen-klimaatcrisis-playground
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Richard Powers' new novel is dedicated to his sister, who died in 2022. Playground plunges us into the complex and frequently unfamiliar world of the ocean with a radical purpose: forest and ocean are not merely backdrop but a way of decentring the human, of insisting that if fiction limits itself to an anthropocentric universe, it severely limits its potential.
#books #richardpowers #bookstodon #humanity
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/21/i-no-longer-have-to-save-the-world-novelist-richard-powers-on-fiction-and-the-climate-crisis -
A good story
The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.
slip:4a1449.
#InspirationalQuotesBookSelected_ #Quotes #RichardPowers #Storytelling
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Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/30/three-british-novelists-make-booker-2024-longlist-among-cohort-of-global-voices #Awardsandprizes #PercivalEverett #SamanthaHarvey #RachelKushner #RichardPowers #ClaireMessud #ColinBarrett #AnneMichaels #Bookerprize #HishamMatar #TommyOrange #SarahPerry #Fiction #Culture #Books
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Waited and waited until the right time to read #RichardPowers #TheOverstory and am so glad I did. Started it this morning and am already floored.
I would have enjoyed it at any time but I'm in the right headspace to really connect with it - everything in its right place and all that.
Will use this as a root thread for thoughts along the way.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 12:
You're at a coffee shop table at the end of the universe, what 3 writers are you chatting with?Richard Powers, Arundhati Roy, Ben Okri
among others
#amWritingFiction #amChatting #amDrinkingCoffee #authors
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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007). Cover Art for the 1959 Dell first paperback printing, and the frontispiece for the 1990 Masterpieces of Science Fiction series from The Easton Press by Richard M. Powers (1921-1996). Plus an amusing note from Vonnegut about Powers.
#KurtVonnegut #RichardPowers #Illustration #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF #Bookstodon @sciencefiction @scifi
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"The only harmless works are sterilized, and the only safe listeners are dead."
#AmReading ORFEO by #RichardPowers
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"Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't yet destroyed."
#AmReading ORFEO by #RichardPowers
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Music's sweet ruse:
"...he returned to the exhausted vocabularies of the old masters...trying to work out how they'd managed, once, to twist the viscera and swell whatever it was in humans that imagined it was a soul."
#AmReading ORFEO by #RichardPowers
