Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Galatea 2.2

By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £23.99

Buy Now for £23.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.
©1995 Richard Powers (P)2019 Recorded Books
Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Science Fiction
Show More Show Less
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Prisoner's Dilemma cover art
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance cover art
First Words cover art
Hopeland cover art
The Gifts of Reading cover art
Everything Is Going to be K.O. cover art
A Circle of Quiet cover art
The Peanuts Papers cover art
The Lola Quartet cover art
Some Answers Without Questions cover art
Devotion cover art
To Name the Bigger Lie cover art
The Birthday of the World cover art
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories cover art
The Great Good Thing cover art
Writing Life Stories cover art

What listeners say about Galatea 2.2

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    1
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    1 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Samuel

Powers is a masterful writer

Wonderfully compelling writing let down by a narrator with no talent. I was disappointed by the way the narrator chose to diminish emotion in favour of nothingness

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Anonymous User

The story is horrible

The tech parts were nice. The author can’t write people though. It’s like a self obsessed teen boy destined to be an incel wrote a book. Skip all parts including his take on ‘woman’ and relationships (80% of book) and it’s kind of cute (20% of book).
Correction. The tech part also ends in trash. Lost me at
‘he wants to do brain surgery on the computer.’. Really?

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!