RaveThe Los Angeles Review of Books\"Playground joins The Overstory as an important and innovative addition to the burgeoning genre of climate fiction, but it also parallels the earlier novel in suggesting that one reason human rule on earth might be coming to a close is that we could potentially be supplanted by artificial intelligences. The novel thus directly addresses two of the most pressing issues in today’s world, issues that bear on the very survival of the human race. The novel may be a warning of the potential disaster looming as a result of our treatment of the natural world as a mere playground for humans, but it is also an oddly cheerful paean...to the value of play in our attempts to define ourselves in relation to each other and the world ... If Playground thus contains echoes of much of Powers’s earlier writing, it also covers important new territory in its focus on the oceans, a particularly welcome contribution to a topic that has not been sufficiently explored in climate fiction.\
