| The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) |  | Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 17,112
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 499
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0553380966
EAN: 9780553380965
ASIN: 0553380966
Publication Date: May 2, 2000
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Product Description
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 in the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life—and the entire future of humanity—is about to be decoded and reprogrammed…
Amazon.com Review
John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.
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