Richard Powers
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English
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Composer Peter Els --the "Bioterrorist Bach" -- pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them.
2) Galatea 2.2
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English
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Richard Powers, returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually...
3) Generosity
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English
Description
Russell Stone is teaching creative nonfiction in Chicago when he meets a young Algerian woman with "a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell." His curiosity about her happiness despite her refugee status leads a geneticist to research further and announce discovery of a genotype for happiness. This fantasy fiction asks us to consider both science and imagination as...
4) Orfeusz
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Polish
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"W Orfeuszu Powers opowiada historię mężczyzny, który rozpaczliwie uciekając przed teraźniejszością, wyrusza w podróż we własną przeszłość. Kompozytor Peter Els pewnego wieczoru zastaje na swym progu policję. Departament Bezpieczeństwa Krajowego Stanów Zjednoczonych zainteresował się domowym laboratorium mikrobiologicznym Elsa, najnowszym z prowadzonych przez niego od dawna eksperymentów mających na celu odkrycie muzyki w najmniej...