Playground by Richard Powers (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 21 AUG 2025

Playground follows four lives - a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough. In the world’s largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading - sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanity’s next great adventure.

Paperback 
Publication: 21 Aug 2025, Penguin
ISBN: 9781804950821
Extent: 288 pages