#richardpowers — Public Fediverse posts

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.

#rebcommendations #bewilderment #TheOverstory

Warner Bros Lands AI-Themed ‘Playground’ For Timothée Chalamet & Plan B
#News #BrianSwardstrom #PlanB #Playground #RichardPowers #TimothéeChalamet #WarnerBros

https://deadline.com/2026/03/timothee-chalamet-plan-b-playground-warner-bros-ai-themed-1236761538/

"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.

#NowReading #Bookstodon #RichardPowers

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

#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
#RichardPowers #ArundhatiRoy #BenOkri

Responses so far to my request for works that aren't stuck in fear, gloom and doom narratives related to #sustainability #climate #environment
Please add

Movements
#TakeTheJump
#SolarPunk
#permaculture
#AIArt

Non-Fiction
#SusanneMoser
#GlennAlbrecht
#ElinKelsey
#DonellaMeadows
#AlastairMcIntosh
@annaleen
#SuzanneSimard
#RobinWallKimmerer
#MerlinSheldrake

Fiction and #clifi
@octaviacade
#KimStanleyRobinson
#ErnestCallenbach
#OctaviaButler
#RichardPowers
#CharlotteMcConaghy

Trying to come up with a “favourite authors” list, as I’ve seen a few other people do. It’s tricky, because it changes all the time. But here’s a list of authors from whom any new release would be considered as a “must buy”.

#RobbieArnott
#KateAtkinson
#AnthonyDoerr
#TanaFrench
#ChinaMieville
#ClaireNorth
#PhillipReeve
#RichardPowers
#DonnaTartt