Plowing the Dark

In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers rush to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, a young man is held hostage in another empty white room [...]
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In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers rush to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, a young man is held hostage in another empty white room, equipped only with his imagination and memory to navigate himself through his captivity. How these two disparate worlds come together make up the arc of Richard Powers' most boldly imagined and deeply humane novel to date.Author Biography: Richard Powers is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award. He is the author of Three Farmers On Their Way to a Dance, Prisoner's Dilemma, The Gold Bug Variations, the National Book Award-nominated Operation Wandering Soul, the National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated Galatea 2.2, and Gain, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction. He lives in Illinois.