(Ebook-Pdf) - Fiction - Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age

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Neal Stephenson’s dazzling novel Snow

Crash set the science fiction world on fire,

charting out the literary landscape of the

next millennium with wild abandon. Now

this acclaimed talent has again created

a singular vision of the future. Imagine

Charles Dickens writing in the 21st

century...and you begin to imagine life

in The Diamond Age.

Decades into 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

neo-Victorians. He’s made an illicit copy

of a state-of-the-art interactive device

called A Young Lady's 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: the

Primer. And from the moment she opens

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the book, her life is changed. She enters a

fairy tale in which she is the heroine,

challenged with traversing an enchanted

world in search of the fabled twelve keys. If

successful, she could emerge with untold

wisdom and power.

Following the discovery of his crime,

Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own.

Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise,

squeezed by agents of Protocol Enforcement

on one side and a Mandarin underworld

crime lord on the other; he searches for an

elusive figure known as the Alchemist. His

quest and Nell’s will ultimately lead them to

another seeker whose fate is bound up with

the Primer—a woman who holds the key to

a vast, subversive information network that

is destined to decode and reprogram the

future of humanity.

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 is the author of Snow

Crash, Zodiac, and The Big U.

Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll

A Bantam Spectra Book

Bantam Books

1540 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

Printed in the United States of America

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