"Playground," by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Powers, is a brilliant novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the Earth's oceans. The story involves a computer genius, a ...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers is back with "Playground" (W.W. Norton­), a brilliant new novel about artificial intelligence and the race to save the oceans. The story moves along ...