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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 )
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 )
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
Format: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.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
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A fantastic book
I read this book twice, back to back I found it very, very enjoyable. The writing is good, the jokes are funny and the setting is amazing, totally different from the modern world,... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Roger Butterworth
Diamond No
I have read several of this author,s books and in the past have been astonished at the depth and imagination
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Published 6 months ago by Francis
Wide eccentricity doesn't make it wholly interesting
I was largely unimpressed with Diamond Age as it didn't contain passages which struck my imagination, something which I found so abundant in Snow Crash and Anathem, being the only... Read more
Published 7 months ago by M-I-K-E 2theD
One of my favorites
It wasn't perfect: it felt a little rushed at times... particularly the end and some of the characters weren't great yet it became one of my favourite books because the world is a... Read more
Published 10 months ago by David Murpy
Re-reading this book after almost 10 years it still packs a punch
I guess I must have read this book roughly 10 years back, must have been soon after it came out, I had read Snow Crash & realised Neal Stephenson was a god & the internet was... Read more
Published 12 months ago by A. E. Brett
Book great - e-transcription poor
This is one of the best of Neal Stephenson's books - long enough to be interesting but not excessively so as later books become. Read more
Published 15 months ago by W. J. Stewart
Sci-fi that stands the test of time
This book was written a while ago, so some of the ideas explored in it have actually become more familiar to us - such as having something small enough to carry around with you... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Sara Boltman
Aiming for a Sequel?
I thought that this was a great book and, like others, wondered about the ending. I would not be surprised to find a sequel one day -it is certainly set up for one
Published 19 months ago by Dr. Stephen J. Doyle
The Confusion (to borrow Mr Stephenson's penchant for titles)
An eagerly anticipated read but this was just like the Curate's egg: "well done in parts".
I suspect that this started off as a much larger work and was abandoned many... Read more
I suspect that this started off as a much larger work and was abandoned many... Read more
Published 21 months ago by E. Ault-Walker
Life's too short
I've read 300 pages, which includes Part A and a bit into Part B.
In all honesty, Part A was a 75 page manuscript, with 175 pages of description that stops the smallest... Read more
In all honesty, Part A was a 75 page manuscript, with 175 pages of description that stops the smallest... Read more
Published 21 months ago by dm8110
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