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Richard Powers

American novelist
Richard Powers

Novel Thoughts

Last Updated: April 30, 2014 by semper2013

“Novel Thoughts: Four Fiction Writers with Metaphysics on Their Minds” by John Updike, New Yorker 71 (August 21, 1995): 105.  John Updike admits to crying over Powers’s neural network AI, Helen, from Galatea 2.2.

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