Galatea 2.2 - Softcover

"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A splendid intellectual adventure, a heartbreaking love story, a brief tutorial on cognitive science, and the autobiography of one of the most gifted writers of the younger generation."--The Washington Post Book World

"Terse and heartbreaking."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Brilliantly imaginative."--Time

"I love and admire this book...but I cannot give an adequate sense of its many marvels....One of the most beautiful and baffling dialogues in recent fiction."--The Boston Globe

"Richard Powers, like Bill Gates, is his own CPU, creating his own benchmarks for fiction. For all his cybersmart wizardry, he still writes about megahurts in a language anyone can understand."

"One of the few younger American writers who can stake a claim to the cerebral legacy of Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo."--The Nation

"Galatea 2.2 is entertainment of a very high order, and likely to be remembered as one of the best books of the year, because its erudition is nourished by genuine feeling."--GQ

"Powers' exposition of the linguistic and perceptual intricacies underlying consciousness is nothing less than brilliant."--The New Yorker

"The kind of delicious novel of ideas that a computer-literate Vladimir Nabokov would have written... With dazzling stylistic virtuosity and a keen grasp of character, Powers has reshaped the myth of Pygmalion into a compelling parable for the digital age."--San Francisco Chronicle

"This book, however cerebral, embodies a lifelike vitality of movement, uncertainty and change. A brilliant torrent of knowledge, feelings, quotations and invention, it genuinely requires the reader to complete its sense."--Chicago Tribune