or

Special Offer

Download for Free with
Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial

Start your free trial at Audible.co.uk
The Diamond Age (Unabridged)
 
See larger image 
Share your own customer images

The Diamond Age (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Neal Stephenson (Author), Jennifer Wiltsie (Narrator)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
List Price: £49.98
Price:£18.37, or Free with Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial membership
You Save:£31.61 (63%)
At Audible.co.uk, you can choose to download any of 60,000 audiobooks and more, and listen on your Kindle™, iPhone®, iPod®, Android™ or 500+ MP3 players.
Your exclusive Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial membership includes:
  • This audiobook free, or any other Audible audiobook of your choice
  • Save up to 80% off the price of the CD equivalent
  • Members-only sales and promotions

Formats

 Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition £6.99   -- --
Hardcover --   -- --
Paperback £6.29   -- --
Preloaded Digital Audio Player --   -- --
Audio Download, Unabridged £18.37 or Free with Audible.co.uk 30-day free trial

Product details

  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 18 hours
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Audible Frontiers
  • Audible Release Date: 19 July 2001
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQAXIS
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)

    •  Would you like to give feedback on images?

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 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life - and the entire future of humanity - is about to be decoded and reprogrammed...
©1995 Neal Stephenson; (P)2001 Audible, Inc.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt
Search inside this book:

Tag this product

 (What's this?)
Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organise and find favourite items.
Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Brilliant 12 Mar 2005
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!!
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Great book 30 Oct 2004
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.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Nearly a masterpiece 1 July 1999
By A Customer
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.

Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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
of the stories. Read more
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
Published 20 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
Published 21 months ago by dm8110
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Look for similar items by category


Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2012, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates