Limitless Possibility in ‘The Overstory’

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Neelay is a computer prodigy as a child and grows up to be a world-changing visionary. If you had asked me before I read this book how technology would be integrated into a book about trees I probably would have shrugged.

But Richard Powers creates an organic connection between the two worlds that I could not have predicted. The complexity of nature inspires Neelay to create worlds that aspire…