- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (29 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014027037X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140270372
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 11.1 x 3.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 203,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Decades into the future, near the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians, by making an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer". Seattle Weekly called Stephenson's Snow Crash "The most influential book since ... Neuromancer."
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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 Sterling )
Establishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary (USA Today ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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 Sterling )
Establishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary (USA Today ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Nearly a masterpiece,
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This review is from: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Paperback)
Following up his epochal 'Snow Crash', Stephenson here investigates the godlike possibilities of nanotechnology, while at the same time exploring issues of society, class, education, the meaning of growing up and so much more.It all rolls along brilliantly - slowly drawing together its 3 main protaganists who meet each other very late on, and then, suddenly - it just ends. I have never read a book with such a disappointingly abrupt ending - its as if Stephenson was forced to compress the last two chapters into 2 paragraphs. i don't know what the man was thinking. Hence 4, not 5 crowns.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant,
This review is from: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Paperback)
Various comments for this run as 'good but not Snow Crash' 'great but flawed' 'good but not Cryptonomicon'. This book is simply superb. I thoroughly enjoyed all of his other books, but for me this is the pinnacle. A world struggling to get to grips with the differences that seperate us, uses a tribal approach to create regions for people to live their chosen lives. This politcal world is imbued with Stephenson's usual array of amazing technology, and extraordinary concepts. The most powerful of these is a book with the ability to adapts its lessons instantaneously to its reader's needs, and a little girl with power to reshape everything. I loved the (for me very real) possiblities D/A opens up, and I want one of those books!!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book,
This review is from: The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Paperback)
This is one of the few SF books which fully explore nanotech and it's potential impact on society. If you liked Snow Crash you'll probably like this. Stephenson's conception of tribal order with technology is astounding. This book is a must for all those who like some of the ideas put forth in K Eric Drexlers book. Great read.
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