- [Review of Galatea 2.2]. Kirkus
Reviews 63 (April 1, 1995): 420. Starred review of Galatea 2.2.
- Steinberg, Sybil S. "Forecasts:
Fiction." Publishers Weekly 242.16 (April 17, 1995): 37.
Starred review of G2.2.
- Pearl, Nancy. "Adult Books: Fiction:
General Fiction." Booklist 91.17 (May 1, 1995): 1552.
Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Henderson, David W. "Book Reviews:
Fiction." Library Journal 120.9 (May 15, 1995): 97.
Starred review
of Galatea 2.2.
- Mallon, Thomas. "Read It and Beep."
GQ 65.6 (June, 1995): 86-89. Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Gediman, Paul. "Galatea 2.2" Boston Review 20.3 (Summer, 1995): 37. Review of
Galatea 2.2.
- Walters, Colin. "Fictional Reprise For
Age of Reading." Washington Times.
- Whitehead, Colson. "Galatea 2.2."
Village Voice 40.23 (June 6, 1995): SS9. Review of G2.2.
- Skow, John. "Live Wires." Time
145.24 (June 12, 1995): 72. Rev of G2.2.
- Wood, Dave. "Galatea 2.2"
Minneapolis Star-Tribune (June 12, 1995): 7. Short squib on
Galatea in books roundup.
- Carroll, Jon. "Eine Kleine Knot
Music." San Francisco Chronicle (June 16, 1995): C24.
Commentary, including notes on G2.2.
- Eder, Richard. "More Human Than
Human." Los Angeles Times Book Review (June 18, 1995): 3,
12. Review of Galatea 2.2. Rerinted in FanFare (June 18, 1995):
35.
- Fisher, Barbara. "Love and Beauty, One
Bit and Byte at a Time." Boston Globe (June 18, 1995): B47.
Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Romano, Carlin. "Helen of Cyberspace."
Philadelphia Inquirer (June 18, 1995): L1.
- Kakutani, Michiko. "Playing Pygmalion
to a Hermeneutic Computer." New York Times 144 (June 27,
1995): C19 (L); B2 (N). Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Rubin, Merle. "Authentic Lust;
Artificial Intelligence." Wall Street Journal 226 (July 5,
1995): 7. Reviews John Herman's The Weight of Love and Powers' Galatea
2.2.
- Moore, Steven. "Soul of a New
Machine." Washington Post Book World 25.28 (July 9,
1995): 1, 12. Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Harper, John. "'Pygmalion' for the
Computer Age." Orlando Sentinel (July 9, 1995): F8.
- Allen, Bruce. "Man and Machine."
News and Observer (Raleigh, NC).
- Howard, Gerald. "My Fair Software."
Nation 261.2 (July 10, 1995): 64-66. Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Mesic, Penelope. "Fiction: Making Up
Your Own Mind. Richard Powers' Torrentially Brilliant Novel About
Inventing an Artificial Intelligence." Chicago Tribune Books
(July 16, 1995): 6. Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Cohen, Robert. "Pygmalion in the
Computer Lab: As a Novelist Loses Faith in Meaning, His Machine Takes Up
the Job." New York Times Book Review 144 (July 23, 1995):
17. Review of G2.2.
- O'Connor, Kyrie. "Human Spirit at the
Heart of 'Galatea 2.2'." Hartford Courant (July 23, 1995)
- Davis, J. Madison. "Science Fiction
Tale Provokes Much Thought." The Sunday Oklahoman (July 23,
1995): 7.
- Garon, Jesse.
"Exploring the Neural
'Net': Galatea 2.2 Examines the Ghost In the Machine."
Skew 9 (August 1995).
- Winner, Molly. "Super Book, But Not a
Quick Read." Southern Book Trade (August, 1995): 20.
- Goldstein, Lauren. "Read Me:
Selections From the Top Shelf." Details (August, 1995): 88.
Roundup, with short review of Galatea 2.2.
- "And Bear in Mind." New York
Times Book Review 144.50152 (August 13, 1995): 26.
- Berry, Michael. "Pygmalion in
Cyberspace." San Francisco Chronicle (August 13, 1995)
- Domini, John. "Skimming the Reality
Zone." Sunday Oregonian (August 20, 1995): 5.
- Updike, John. "Novel Thoughts."
New Yorker 71 (August 21, 1995): 105. Reviews the books 'Sophie's
World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy,' by Jostein Gaarder,
'The Thought of Gang,' by of Philosophy,' by Jostein Gaarder, 'The
Thought of Gang,' by Edward Coffin; 'The Romantic Movement: Sex,
Shopping and the Novel,' by Alain de Botton; and 'Galatea 2.2,' by
Richard Powers.
- Cremins, Robert. "Cyberbiography."
Houston Chronicle (August 27, 1995): 20, 25.
- Benedict, Matthew F. "Novel Explores
Plethora of Ideas." South Bend Tribune (September 3, 1995): E6.
- Anziska, Yaacof. "To Think, To Love."
Columbia Daily Spectator (New York). (September 21, 1995).
- A.G. "Galatea 2.2." Elliott Bay
Book Notes (Fall, 1995): 4 Short review of Galatea 2.2.
- Neville, Leland. "Galatea 2.2."
The New York Review of Science Fiction (October, 1995): 7.
- James, Caryn. "Got Killer Chips On Our
Mind." The New York Times (October 8, 1995): 15. James mentions
Galatea 2.2 in the context of recent films on cybernetic themes.
- Fletcher, Ron. "Novelist Takes a
Modern Chip at Ovid's 'Galatea'."
Christian Science Monitor 87 (October 10, 1995): 13. Review of
Galatea 2.2.
- Jones, Dan. "Silicon and Dreams."
World & I 10.12 (December, 1995): 269 (5 pages). Review of
Galatea 2.2.
- [Review of Galatea 2.2]. New
York Times Book Review 100 (December 3, 1995): 76. Notable books
of 1995, including Galatea 2.2.
- "Informed Opinions: Experts Pick Their
Favories."
Washington Post Book World 25 (December 10, 1995): 6. Gail
Caldwell cites Galatea among her favorite books of 1995.
- Tabbi, Joseph.
"A Review of Books in the Age of Their Technological Obsolescence." Electronic Book Review, Winter
95-96, number 1. On book reviewing, electronic media, Bruce Sterling,
and Galatea 2.2.
- [Review of Galatea 2.2]. Whole
Earth Review .n. 88 (December 22, 1995): 102. Review of Galatea
2.2, comprising two exerpts.
- [Review of Galatea 2.2]. New
Yorker 71 (December 25, 1995): 144. John Updike cites Galatea
as one of his favorite books of 1995.
- [Review of Galatea 2.2]. Time
146 (December 25, 1995): 148. Galatea 2.2 is listed among the
five best novels of 1995.
- Baron, Adam.
"Simulating
Fiction." Spike Cyberzine, 1996. Review of
G2.2.
- Shuman, R. Baird. "[Review of Galatea
2.2]" Magill's Literary Annual, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press
(1996). pp. 299-302.
- Pritchard, William H. "Galatea 2.2."
Hudson Review 49.1 (Spring, 1996): 142. Review of Galatea
2.2.
- Johnson, George. "Romancing the
Brain." Complexity (Santa Fe, NM). (Spring, 1996): 35, 71.
- White, Curtis. "Book Reviews."
Review of Contemporary Fiction 16.1 (Spring, 1996): 142. Review
of G2.2.
- Manaktala, Gita. "Synapse Lapse."
Stuff Magazine (February, 1996): 131.
- McClellan, Jim. "Hyperliterature."
Observer (London). (June 2, 1996): 46. Short recommendation of
Galatea 2.2.
- Thompson, Alice. "Educating Helen."
The Scotsman (June 8, 1996): 20.
- Case, Brian. "Train in Vain." Time
Out London (June 12, 1996).
- Chilvers, Gordon. "Eng Lit In Bytes
and Bits." Times (London). (June 15, 1996): WEE 10.
- Christy, Desmond. "Galatea 2.2"
Guardian (June 21, 1996).
- Bradfield, Scott. "Geek-Speak." Observer
(London). (June 23, 1996): R16.
- Caveney, Graham. "Galatea 2.2"
Arena Magazine (July/August, 1996). Short recommendation of
Galatea 2.2 in British magazine.
- Tonkin, Boyd. "Printout: Just Plain
Folks?" New Statesman 125.4291 (July 5, 1996): 45.
- O'Connell, Sanjida. "Collected Works."
New Scientist 151.2040 (July 27, 1996): 57. Reviews Galatea
2.2 in the context of five science fiction novels.
- Taylor, D. J. "Galatea 2.2" Mail on
Sunday (August 18, 1996): 38.
- Anonymous.
"Galatea 2.2."
American Physical Society New England Section Newsletter 11.8
(Fall 1996).
- Whittaker, Pete. "Much Male Grunting."
Tribune (London). (November 1, 1996).
- VanHook, David C. "Postmodern Culture
and Cognition: Two Fictions." Carolina Quarterly 48.2
(Winter, 1996): 88-89. Review of Galatea 2.2.
- Hayles, N. Katherine. "The Posthuman
Body: Inscription and Incorporation in Galatea 2.2 and
Snow Crash." Configurations 5.2 (1997):
241-266. Available online at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v005/5.2hayles.html
(subscribers only.) This piece appears in slightly altered form as
chapter 10 of her book, How We Became Posthuman, q.v.
- O'Seaghdha, Padraig G. "Cognitive
Science Fiction." CogSci News (Spring, 1997, V.10 n. 1): 1-2.
- Lernout, Geert. [Review of Galatea
2.2] De Morgen. (March 27, 1997).
- DeJong, Mels. "Kennis is Iets
Lichamelijks." Vrij Nederland (May 10, 1997): 75.
- Anonymous. "Galatea 2.2." Schweizes
Bibliotheksdienst (June 1997).
- Osborne, Charles. "Galatea 2.2."
Sunday Telegraph (London). (June 8, 1997).
- Lewis, Trevor. Galatea 2.2." Sunday
Times (London). (July 27, 1997).
- Osborne, Charles. "Galatea 2.2."
Sunday Telegraph (August 6, 1997).
- Anonymous. "Aus Illinois." Facts
(Week 39, 1997). Short four-star review of Galatea 2.2
in German weekly.
- Isenschmid, Andreas. "Literatur-Tip."
Focus (German news magazine). (September 8-14, 1997).
Recommendation of Galatea 2.2.
- Schneck, Peter. "Liebestod im
Shut-down." Die Wochenzeitung (October 10, 1997).
- Anonymous. [Review of Galatea 2.2].
Nordkurier (October 15, 1997).
- Schmidt, Michael. "Ovid im
Elektronenhirn." NZ Zeitung (October 30, 1997).
- Anonymous. [Review of Galatea 2.2].
Oberhessische Presse (October 30, 1997).
- Mazenauer, Beat. "Liebkosung der
Feedbackpuffer." Luzern Heute (October 30, 1997). Also
appears in Freitag (March 20, 1998). Galatea 2.2
featured in an article on "Internet Novels."
- Anonymous. [Review of Galatea 2.2].
Xaver (November 1997). Mid-length review in German monthly.
- Kühne, Ulirch. [Review of Galatea
2.2]. ekz-Informationsdienst 369.211.2 (November, 1997).
- Boedecker, Sven. [Review of Galatea
2.2.] Die Woche (November 28, 1997).
- Sonnenschein, Ulrich. "Galatea 2.2."
Süddeutscher Rundfunk (November 28, 1997). Long radio
feature on Powers and Galatea 2.2. A version of
Sonnenschein's feature also aired on Hessischer Rundfunk.
- Pollanz, Wolfgang. "Maschine Wird
Magister." Weiner Zeitung. (December 5, 1997).
- Eggebrecht, Harald. "Beziehungskiste
Helen." Süddeutsche Zeitung (December 10, 1997).
- Anonymous. [Review of Galatea 2.2].
Salburger Nachrichten (December 10, 1997). Short review of
Galatea 2.2.
- Isenschmid, Andreas. "Erstmals in
Einen Computer Verliebt." Tages-Anzeiger (December 12, 1997).
- Klier, Walter. "Frankenstein,
Körperlos." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (January 16, 1998).
- Chassay, Jean-Francois.
"Pygmalion a l'ere de la virtualite: Apprendre avec la machine."
Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines 76 (March, 1998): 73-83.
- Crawford, T. Hugh. "Mind the Gap: On
Trains, Computers, and Consciousness in Richard Powers and Bruno Latour."
Presented at Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology's
Works-in-Progress seminar on Tuesday, May 19, 1998.
- Abstract. The narrator/author, R.
Powers in R. Powers's novel Galetea 2.2 struggles to remember the
source of what he hopes will be the opening line of his next novel:
"Just picture yourself on a train heading south." Galatea 2.2, written
by the real Richard Powers (the one who occupies an embodied frame of
reference shared by the rest of us who sweat and eat), has nothing to
do with trains. Instead it is a techno-pygmalion story, one that links
Powers firmly to a mainline humanist tradition and, in the process,
mocks the political pretenses of late 20th-century academic cultural
theorists. Still, the train metaphor turns out to be an interesting
way to raise some questions regarding human/non-human consciousness
and distributed cognition. One way into these issues is through
another train book that presses similar questions: Bruno Latour's
quirky ethnographic study of an unbuilt subway system named "Aramis."
- Alperowitz, Michael.
"Orpheus im
Elekronenhirn: Ein Multimedia-Projekt im Latein-Leistungskurs."
Published on the web site of the Landesinstitut für Erziehung und
Unterricht.
(July 10 1998).
- Sonnenschein, Ulrich. "Es War So, Aber
Anders." Frankfurter Rundschau (July 14, 1998).
- Hayles, N. Katherine. "The Semiotics
of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman." chapter 10 in her How We
Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and
Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. ISBN:
0226321452 cloth; 0226321460 pbk.) Chapter on G2.2 and Neal Stephenson's
Snow Crash.
- McElhearn, Kirk. [Review of Galatea
2.2] PHENIX 51 (1999).
- Saltzman, Art. "The Trope in the
Machine." chapter in his This Mad Instead: Governing Metaphors in
Contemporary American Fiction. Univ of South Carolina Press,
2000. Chapter on Galatea 2.2.
- Anonymous.
"Richard Powers' Galatea
2.2: A Report."
- Huber, Herbert.
"Galatea 2.2" (September
24, 2001)
- Lodge, David. Consciousness and the
Novel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2002), pp.
20-28. Extended rumination on Galatea in Lodge's
book-length meditation on fiction's treatment of consciousness.
- Baym, Nina, et. al., eds. The
Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition. New York: W.
W. Norton & Co. (2002). Headnote to long excerpt from Galatea
2.2, vol. E, pp. 2572-2573.
- Pence, Jeffrey,
"The End of Technology: Memory in Richard Powers's
Galatea 2.2." MLQ: Modern
Language Quarterly
63.3 (September, 2002) 343-363
- Berger, James, "Testing Literature:
Helen Keller and Richard Powers Implementation H[elen]." Arizona
Quarterly 58.3 (Autumn, 2002) 109-137
- Bate, Jonathan, "In and Out of the
Stream." Times Literary Supplement (December 6, 2002): 25.
Review of David Lodge's Consciousness and the
Novel (see above) that treats Galatea 2.2.
- Tolson, Jay, "The Ghost Hunters."
U.S. News and World Report (December 16, 2002): 43-46.
Galatea briefly mentioned in article on how "Scientists and
novelists share insights into the enduring mystery of consciousness."
- Rosu, Anca. "Parody
as Cultural Memory in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2." Connotations
12.2-3 (2002/2003): 139-54.
- Rossi, Umberto,
"Galatea
2.2." Pulp Libri, #44, (July-August, 2003): 33.
- Eckstein, Lars and Christoph Reinfant,
"The
Parody of "Parody as Cultural Memory
in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2": A Response to Anca Rosu."
Connotations 13.1-2 (2003/2004): 93-102
- Campbell, Miranda.
"Probing the
Posthuman: Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2 and the Mind-Body Problem."
Reconstruction
Volume 4, Number 3 (Summer 2004).
- Miller, D. Quentin, "Deeper Blues, or
the Posthuman Prometheus: Cybernetic Renewal and the
Late-Twentieth-Century American Novel." American Literature
volume 77, no. 2 (June 2005). Includes analysis of Galatea 2.2.
- Harland-Logan, Sarah, "Revising
Richard:Self-re-creationin Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2." Exposé,
Harvard College, (2006-2007).
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