EDITORIAL REVIEW: In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a
Diamond age: or, a young lady's illustrated primer
โ Scribed by Neal Stephenson
- Book ID
- 100249989
- Publisher
- Spectra;Bantam Books
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Edition
- Bantam trade reissue
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0553380966
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer's purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
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