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 Galatea 2.2 Information
2,211 words, approx. 7 pages
 Galatea 2.2 is a novel by Richard Powers. The novel is pseudo-autobiographical: the narrator is named Richard Powers and there is discussion of the four novels he wrote before Galatea 2.2 along with other references to his real biography. Richard Powers...
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 The Review of Contemporary Fiction Galatea 2.2. (book reviews)
03/22/1996: 542 words, approx. 2 pages What distinguishes Richard Powers's new novel from other recent cyber-fictive responses to postmodern-deconstructive-life-as-text/world-as-web is the absence within it of science speculation, of theory, and of ideology. Galatea 2.2 is a deeply "felt" response to the cultural issues constellated around the question of humanity's... summary from source:
Biography Of neural nets and brains in vats: model subjects in Galatea 2.2 and Plus.
01/01/2007: 9,302 words, approx. 31 pages "It was like so, but wasn't" (3), begins Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 (1995), an expression which, the reader discovers some three hundred pages later, is a variant on "the traditional Persian fable opener," which goes "It went like this, but wasn't" (319). This...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by Gerald Howard
1,609 words, approx. 5 pages
Below, Howard provides an overview of Galatea 2.2, discussing in particular Powers's focus on consciousness.
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Critical Review by Richard Eder
1,259 words, approx. 4 pages
Eder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American critic. In the following positive review, he discusses characterization and theme in Galatea 2.2, stating that he finished the work "not totally sure of the destination but with a vivid memory of points along the way."
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