The Boston Globe, October 8th, 2006
Sunday, October 8, 2006 AWAKENINGS The scientific mind is not all that distant from the pure aesthete both have a reverence for form and for some uncontestable truth, whether beauty or proof. Richard Powers's fiction tends to roam happily in both worlds. His formidable intelligence possesses a sweetness that can still be dropped to its knees by music or a flight of birds he's a geek for all things exquisite. The novels, nine so far, inevitably display this passion, wandering through fields as vast as artificial intelligence or cognitive neuroscience with supple ease and curiosity. The curiosit...
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