Description: From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE OVERSTORY comes a reworking of the Pygmalion myth, GALATEA 2.2, a head-trip of a novel in which a fictionalized version of Richard Powers collaborates with a nueroscientist to create a computer program capable of human-level thought and comprehension by training it on a canonical list of great books. Sound familiar? Powers, one of our smartest and most prescient writers, published this meta mind melter in 1995, almost 30 years before publishers started feeding books to AI language models. Perfect for fans of Ex Machina, Wiliam Gibson, and Philip K. Dick. GALATEA 2.2, by Richard Powers. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover, 1995. New York: Farrar, Strous, & Giroux. Black quarter cloth with gilt lettering stamped to spine and cream paper over boards; octavo; 329 pp. A Very Good first edition of an early work from Powers: straight boards, tight binding, and clean interior free of writing and notations. Minor shelf wear, including bumping to corners and head and tail of spine, as well as a touch of smudging to text block, else great. NOT a remainder. NOT ex-library. Comes in a Very Good illustrated dust jacket. Minor edge wear to corners, head, and tail. NOT price-clipped ($23.00). Now protected in archival mylar. A finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award, from one of our most important writers.
Price: 18.99 USD
Location: Southampton, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Signed: No
Author: Richard Powers
Region: North America
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1995
