Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers (Kindle Edition): Why This Visionary Novel Feels Even More Urgent Today
What makes a novel about virtual reality and solitary captivity feel so eerily contemporary? Richard Powers’ Plowing the Dark puts that question front and center—long before the metaverse was a buzzword, before AI image models could conjure cathedrals in seconds, and before our lives were mediated by screens as deeply as they are now. If…