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Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
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Description for Diamond Age
Paperback. The future is nano .. And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 234 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON'S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSIC
The future is small. The future is nano . . .
And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nanotechnology?
Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit, magical, dangerous.
And it isn't Nell's. It ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241953198
SKU
V9780241953198
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-96
About Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Reviews for Diamond Age
A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of Pygmalion
Guardian
A wealth of hip, social and technological riffs, stories-within-stories and not a few good jokes. Invest
Time Out
The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction. Stephenson has upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee
Village Voice
A new era in science fiction. People will walk around ... Read more
Guardian
A wealth of hip, social and technological riffs, stories-within-stories and not a few good jokes. Invest
Time Out
The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction. Stephenson has upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee
Village Voice
A new era in science fiction. People will walk around ... Read more