The Diamond Age
$43.49
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2011
Summary
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 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- the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit, magical, dangerous.
An…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241953198 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241953197 |
| Author: | Neal Stephenson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of Pygmalion
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 slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality – Bruce SterlingEstablishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary * USA Today *
About The Author
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.
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