02159cam a2200445 i 4500 1728459760 TxAuBib 20241119120000.0 240326s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781529154320 pbk. 1529154324 pbk. 9781324086031 1324086033 9781529154313 hardback 1529154316 hardback (OCoLC)1436445280 TxAuBib rda Powers, Richard, 1957- Playground / Richard Powers. London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024. 381 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Twelve-year-old 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 on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. 20241119. Ocean Fiction. Friendship Fiction. High school students Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Floating cities Fiction. Social change Fiction. Human beings Effect of climate on Fiction. Nature Effect of human beings on Fiction. Technological innovations Fiction. Sea stories. Political fiction. Climate fiction. lcgft Science fiction. fast