The Diamond Age - Softcover

Stephenson, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553573314 ISBN 13: 9780553573312

Verlag: Bantam Books, 1996

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Book by Stephenson Neal

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A major writer in the "cyberpunk" genre, the author of Snow Crash imagines a future ruled by a rebirth of Victorian thinking, inhabited by a brilliant technologist who dares to rebel against it. Reprint.

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our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the
rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians.  He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer  Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer's purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.  It performs its function superbly.  Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.

Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes--members of the poor, tribeless class.  Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell.  When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian--John Percival Hackworth--  in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special:

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• Verlag: Bantam Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0553573314
• ISBN 13: 9780553573312
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 499