{"product_id":"9781804959404-playground","title":"Playground","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE OVERSTORY\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eBEWILDERMENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Powerful, mesmerically beautiful’ \u003ci\u003eMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘One long, clever magic trick’ \u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Magisterial, moving and thought-provoking … a beautiful love letter to our oceans’ \u003ci\u003eNEW SCIENTIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayground\u003c\/i\u003e follows four lives - a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the world’s largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading - sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanity’s next great adventure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Richard Powers:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Powers has extraordinary gifts as a writer' \u003cb\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Impressively precise in its scientific conjectures, Bewilderment is no less rich or wise in its emotionality' \u003cb\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He composes some of the most beautiful sentences I've ever read. I'm in awe of his talent' \u003cb\u003eOPRAH WINFREY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is impossible to deny the importance of Powers's message' \u003cb\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Refreshing, original and moving' \u003cb\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55658188243318,"sku":"9781804959404","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_34483258_f786a0d1-c594-4c5d-9263-d82d7caf161e.jpg?v=1747947624","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781804959404-playground","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}