Playground by Richard Powers

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Playground follows four lives – a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI pioneer – that intersect on an island in French Polynesia when it is chosen as a base for seasteading, humanity’s next great adventure.

Powers is the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory and the Booker-shortlisted Bewilderment.