Richard Powers: new electronic short fiction at ninthletter.com

RICHARD POWERS: new electronic short fiction
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Ninthletter.com is pleased to announce publication of “They Come in a Steady Stream Now”, a new work of electronic short fiction by Richard Powers.

Richard Powers is the author of to-date eight novels, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is one of the most important fiction writers currently working. Powers has fearlessly taken on many of the Big Ideas that define our times - racism (The Time of Our Singing), industrial pollution (Gain), the boundary between machine intelligence and human consciousness (Galatea 2.2) - and in the process has demonstrated that literature still matters in the 21st Century. He has a tendency to make intellectual leaps that result in startling connections, like intertwining the discovery of the DNA double helix with the keyboard music by J.S. Bach (The Goldbug Variations). His writing is heady and cerebral, but also lyrical and tender.

This is Powers’ first foray into the realm of electronic literature, and his decision to publish this piece electronically marks an important development in an emerging genre.

“They Come in a Steady Stream Now” is the result of a collaborative endeavor between Powers and the ninthletter.com staff, and signals our commitment to advancing new literary forms.

Ninth Letter leads a dual life as both a literary magazine and a literary/visual culture website. “They Come in a Steady Stream Now” is being published concurrent with release of the Fall/Winter 2004 issue of Ninth Letter magazine, which features writing by Ann Beattie and Ron Carlson, plus network art from flyingpuppet.com.

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Joseph Squier, Content Editor, ninthletter.com
[email protected], 217.333.2977

Jodee Rubins, Editor, Ninth Letter
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