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Jim Neilson, "Dirtying Our Hands: An Introduction to the Fiction of Richard Powers"/Jim Neilson, "An Interview with Richard Powers"/James Hurt, "Narrative Powers: Richard Powers as Storyteller"/Greg Dawes, "The Storm of Progress: Richard Powers's Three Farmers"/Joseph Dewey, "Hooking the Nose of the Leviathan: Information, Knowledge, and the Mysteries of Bonding in The Gold Bug Variations"/Trey Stecker, "Ecologies of Knowledge: The Encyclopedic Narratives of Richard Powers and His Contemporaries"/Ann Pancake, " 'TheWheel's Worst Illusion' ": The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul"/Sharon Snyder, "The Gender of Genius: Scientific Experts and Literary Amateurs in the Fiction of Richard Powers"/Charles B.Harris, " 'The Stereo View': Politics and the Role of the Reader in Gain"/A Richard Powers Checklist/Sinda Gregory, "Finding a Language: Introducing Rikki Ducornet"/Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery, "At the Heart of Things and Wild Beauty: An Interview with Rikki Ducornet"/Rikki Ducornet, "The Death Cunt of Deep Dell"/Rikki Ducornet, "Excerpts from Five Novels"/Raymond Leslie Williams, "Ducornet and Borges"/Allen Guttmann, "Rikki Ducornet's Tetralogy of Elements: An Appreciation"/Richard Martin, " 'The Tantalizing Prize': Telling the Telling of The Fountains of Neptune"/Giovanna Covi, "Gender Derision, Gender Corrosion, and Sexual Differences in Rikki Ducornet's Materialist Eden"/Lynne Diamond-Nigh, "Phosphor in Dreamland"/Warren Motte, "Desiring Words"/A Rikki Ducornet Checklist |