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by Neal Stephenson (Author) "A thete visits a mod parlor; noteworthy features of modern armaments ..." (more)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (27 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014027037X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140270372
  • Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 11.1 x 3.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,154 in Books (See Bestsellers 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." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A nanotechnologist, John Hackworth, breaks the moral code of his tribe, the neo-Victorians. He has made an illict copy of a device called "A Young Lady's Primer". Its purpose is to raise and educate a girl capable of thinking for herself, but Hackworth's copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
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