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The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Neal Stephenson

Paperback | Pages: 499 pages

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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)

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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.

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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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Initially, I wasn't tempted by "The Diamond Age," but the subtitle drew me in. A book advising young women? Interesting. However, given a choice between this book and the classic young women's story, Little Women, I think I'll go with Little Women. At least none of the girls are raped.The Diamond Age, Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer was an interesting, convoluted, frustrating book packed with ideas, characters and too little plot. I suspect Stephenson of being in love with his ideas and

This has been on my shelf a while, I think a friend sent it to me. I have to admit, this is a dense read sometimes in the way that hard sci-fi can be: Glazing over at "tech speak tech speak tech speak." If you fall of the tech-speak train you start to glaze over a bit and get confused, or at least I do. I'm sure all the technology is masterfully crafted and is visionary, I just couldn't 100% follow it. It's like sometimes authors TRY to be obscure in their writing in order to be "highbrow" to

I gulped down the 500 pages in four days, and it was not an easy read. I admit ruefully that Stephenson's vocabulary is better than mine. I feel like this book demands analysis, and I don't know enough to provide it. All I could do is count heads and make remarks about the colour and gender and fate of each major character. Which, OK, is worth doing, but it's 3:42am and I've been reading since about 8pm, so forgive me if I don't open it up again just now.I want a primer.I also want more about Dr

Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done.On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. Thats 35 books, 6 of which Id previously read, leaving 29 titles by 14 authors who were new to me.While working through this reading list I got married, went on my honeymoon, switched career and became a

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.



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. It