Book description
Decades into our future, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John
Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe,
the powerful Neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a
state-of-the-art interactive device called a young lady's illustrated
primer, designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.
Unfortunately, for Hackworth, he loses his smuggled copy to a gang of
street urchins in a mugging. One of the young thugs presents the primer
to his little sister, Nell and suddenly her life - and perhaps the whole
future of humanity - is about to be decoded and reprogrammed... vividly
imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a
major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time. Neal
Stephenson has published four novels:
The Big U
, Zodiac
, Snow Crash
and The Diamond Age
. For the last of these he won a 1996 Hugo Award. He also writes (with
J. Frederick George) as 'Stephen Bury'. Their books are Interface
and Cobweb
. Most of his books are published in Penguin. He lives in Seattle, where
he is at work on other novels.
