Publisher's Synopsis
Jim Neilson, Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers/Jim Neilson, An Interview with Richard Powers/James Hurt, Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as Storyteller/Greg Dawes, The Storm of Progress: Richard Powers's Three Farmers/Joseph Dewey, Hooking the Nose of the Leviathan: Information, Knowledge, and the Mysteries of Bonding in The Gold Bug Variations/Trey Stecker, Ecologies of Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His Contemporaries/Ann Pancake, 'TheWheel's Worst Illusion': The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul/Sharon Snyder, The Gender of Genius: Scientific Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Fiction of Richard Powers/Charles B.Harris, 'The Stereo View': Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain/A Richard Powers Checklist/Sinda Gregory, Finding a Language: Introducing Rikki Ducornet/Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, At the Heart of Things and Wild Beauty: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet/Rikki Ducornet, The Death Cunt of Deep Dell/Rikki Ducornet, Excerpts from Five Novels/Raymond Leslie Williams, Ducornet and Borges/Allen Guttmann, Rikki Ducornet's Tetralogy of Elements: An Appreciation/Richard Martin, 'The Tantalizing Prize': Telling the Telling of The Fountains of Neptune/Giovanna Covi, Gender Derision, Gender Corrosion, and Sexual Differences in Rikki Ducornet's Materialist Eden/Lynne Diamond-Nigh, Phosphor in Dreamland/Warren Motte, Desiring Words/A Rikki Ducornet Checklist
