Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where
they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up
for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead
to a startling AI breakthrough.
Elsewhere, 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 in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.
All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in
French Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure: a plan to
send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the
seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic
game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now
estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while
working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while
Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new
project on their shores and change their home forever.
Set in the world’s largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild
place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of
technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared
humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
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