The Diamond Age 9780241953198 Paperback

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CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON’S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSICThe future is small. The future is nano . . .And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell – an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nanotechnology?Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit, magical, dangerous.And it isn’t Nell’s. It was stolen. And now some very powerful people want to get their hands on this highly desirable object. Nell is about to discover that the world can feel very small indeed . . .’6.0 stars. Among the best books I have ever read’ GoodReads Review’IfSnow Crashwas so good that cyberpunk went in to a coma,The Diamond Ageeffectively pulled the plug’GoodReads Review’This isGreat Expectationswith nanotechnology’GoodReads Review