3040 9c34041f-75c8-444d-ad9a-b6b831ad05f3 Galatea 2.2 Richard Powers calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1995-07-02T00:00:00+00:00 <p>A man's experiment in creating the ideal woman. He is Richard Powers, a professor with a taste for the cerebral. As no woman matches his expectations, he creates Helen, a talking intelligence which he programs with his favored books. The novel follows Richard and Helen's relationship to its sad and inevitable conclusion. By the author of The Gold Bug Variations.</p> Farrar, Straus and Giroux http://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?333093 en Novel _isfdb