Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers
A sprawling family saga that interweaves personal histories with scientific ideas and political dissent, using the logic of game theory as a lens to examine how choices between cooperation and self-interest ripple through relationships, activism, and intellectual life. The novel follows a cast of characters whose experiments, loyalties, and moral compromises provoke clashes with authority and with one another, exploring whether empathy and collective solutions can overcome fear and isolation. Witty, elegiac, and idea-driven, it uses science and metaphor to probe the costs and possibilities of human connection.
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- Published
- 1988
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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