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GALATEA 2.2
by Powers, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312423136
- ISBN 13
- 9780312423131
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Picador, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on his personal, laid-in (not affixed) bookplate in black fountain ink. (Author famously does not sign the books themselves.) After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of GALATEA 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting. Richard Powers other novels include THREE FARMERS ON THEIR WAY TO A DANCE, PRISONER'S DILEMMA, THE GOLD BUG VARIATIONS, PLOWING THE DARK, OPERATION WANDERING SOUL (a nominated finalist for the 1993 National Book Award for Fiction) and ORFEO, his latest. GALATEA 2.2 was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award. His novel, THE ECHO MAKER, won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Fine, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped]
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024974
- Title
- GALATEA 2.2
- Author
- Powers, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0312423136
- ISBN 13
- 9780312423131
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 336
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Terms of Sale
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2003
Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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