Encore - Richard Powers

This is an encore presentation of a program originally aired in November of 2024. In this program, two novelists who've created visions of a future after significant climate change...talk about whether their fiction can help shape reality. Across his life, Richard Powers has been driven by an insatiable curiosity for humans and the world around us. This has led him from budding scientist to award-winning author, from Bangkok to the Netherlands, and has helped him win a Pulitzer Prize and a Macarthur Genius Grant. Powers is best known for his novels, including The Gold Bug Variations , named a Time Book of the Year, The Echo Maker , which received a National Book Award, and The Overstory , which received a Pulitzer Prize. Powers’ fourteenth novel, Playground delves into the lives of artists, scientists, and teachers who choose to start seastedding - living on floating cities. On October 30, 2024, Richard Powers came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an onstage conversation with fellow novelist Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future .

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This episode is 01:22:27 long.

This episode was published on Feb 22, 2026.

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