Richard powers

After a few decades of lurid pulp covers featuring half-naked space damsels in distress, grotesque, rubbery aliens, and square-jawed heroic spacemen, sci-fi publishing in the late 50s and 60s opened up to far stranger visions on the covers of their mass-market paperbacks. Foremost among the artists pushing the boundaries of popular sci-fi cover art was … Continue reading "The Surrealist Sci-Fi Cover Art of Richard M. Powers"

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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A…

Original Comic Art titled Alpha 6, located in John's Richard Powers Comic Art Gallery (1178189)

A couple from my father + a few left over Marx Book purchases…. Three delightfully gorgeous Powers covers. And one stunning John Schoenherr cover despite the unknown quality of the short sto…

George R R Martin on his love of fantasy book cover art, and his single motivation for finishing the book series.

Powers follows up the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Overstory" with a book about climate change, neurodivergency and more.

(Richard Powers’ cover for the 1976 edition) 2.5/5 (Collated rating: Bad) Homeward and Beyond (1975) is comprised of four novelettes, four short stories, and one novella. According to an ar…

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024THE POWERFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY AND BEWILDERMENT'Is there anything Richard Powers cannot write? The world here is complete, seductive, and promising. The writing feels like the ocean. Vast, mysterious, deep and alive' PERCIVAL EVERETT'An extraordinarily immersive journey through lives linked in mysterious ways - gripping, alarming and uplifting' EMMA…

by Allan Vorda Richard Powers was born in 1957 in Evanston, Illinois, and enrolled at the University of Illinois as a physics major before switching to