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| Original Title: | The Diamond Age |
| ISBN: | 0553380966 (ISBN13: 9780553380965) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nell, Bud, John Percival Hackworth, Fiona Hackworth, Harv, Dr. X, Carl Hollywood, Judge Fang, Ms. Miranda Redpath, Mr. Chang, Gwendolyn Hackworth, Major Napier, Lord Alexcander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw, King Coyote, Miss Pao, Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw, Miss Matheson, Demetrius James Cotton, Mr. PhyrePhox |
| Setting: | China Shanghai(China) |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (1996), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1996), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1996), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (1996), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1996) Prometheus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1996) |
Neal Stephenson
Paperback | Pages: 499 pages Rating: 4.19 | 77896 Users | 3337 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer |
| Author | : | Neal Stephenson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Trade Reissue |
| Pages | : | Pages: 499 pages |
| Published | : | May 2nd 2000 by Spectra (first published February 1995) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk. Steampunk. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Dystopia |
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The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.Rating About Books The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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I get the feeling that Stephenson's writing process goes something like this:Hey, I found a really cool idea here. I wonder what I can do about it....He then writes about 200 pages of really awesome, meticulous world-building, with innovative ideas about, in the case of this book, the possibly uses of nanotechnology and its eventual social ramifications, and then goes, Oh, damn, I'm writing a story, and high-tails it to the end of the book, leaving the reader a little wind-blown and confused. ItI'm abandoning this book at 50% - one star because I think I deserve the credit for slogging through it, though.
Okay, here's what this Stephenson guy did with his novel. He got together a focus group of 25 unpaid, thirteen year old boys and made them puke out as many buzz words in 10 minutes that they could about science fiction. The buzz words had to be something that would palliate the hyperactive endocrine glands of 13 year old males. Stephenson then roiled together this mess with a rag mop and wrung it into a bucket called The Diamond Age: Or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.To give you a thin sample
I read this the first time when I was a young, impressionable, repressed, closeted Mormon boy. (Oh, god, so many of my reviews seem to start this way.) Stephenson's vision of a future shocked and titillated me, and years later I still found it returning to haunt me. Yet I don't think I ever truly understood the story, and certainly not the ending.Now I think I do. In a future where synthetically assembled diamond is as ubiquitous as glass, where almost anything can be designed and created atom
I loved this book, especially the Neo-Victorian culture. I did feel that some parts lagged and I did flick forward a bit midway. Neal Stephenson is one of my favourite authors, and I do give him credit for each of his books being based on a completely different paradigm.Beautifully written but not quite on the same level as Snow Crash or Anathem for instance.
6.0 stars. Among the best books I have ever read (although slightly behind Snow Crash as my favorite Neal Stephenson novel). Neal's books are just loaded with great dialogue, mind-stretching ideas and a world as complex as our own. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!! Nominee: Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction NovelNominee: John W. Campbell Award for Best Science Fiction NovelNominee: Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelWinner: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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