01906cam a2200373 i 4500 1666259211 TxAuBib 20241022120000.0 240905s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324086031 hardcover $29.99 1324086033 hardcover $29.99 9781324089391 1324089393 (OCoLC)1454717254 TxAuBib rda Powers, Richard, 1957-, author. Playground : a novel / Richard Powers. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 381 p. ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away." -- book jacket. 20241022. Islands Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Artificial intelligence Fiction. Technology Fiction. Imperialism Fiction. French Polynesia Fiction. Science fiction. fast TXMOO