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| Author | Richard Powers |
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| Cover artist | Raymond Martinez/Millennium Images, UK |
| Language | English |
| Published | 2014 (W. W. Norton & Company) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 369 |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-24082-5 |
Orfeo is a novel by American author Richard Powers.
Orfeo tells the story of 70-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els, whose home experiments in biohacking musical patterns into a bacterial human pathogen, Serratia marcescens, have attracted the worried hazmat-suit-level attention of Homeland Security. Els flees in panic, and becomes known as the "Bioterrorist Bach". The novel interleaves Els' attempt at a final redemption with a retrospective telling of his life.