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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780553380965
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553380966
ISBN-13
9780553380965
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1629909
Product Key Features
Book Title
Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Cyberpunk, Coming of Age
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
94-030486
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"[Stephenson] has gotten even better. The Diamond Age Envisions the next century as brilliantly as snow crash did the day after tomorrow."- Newsweek "[Stephenson is] the hottest science fiction writer in America... Snow Crash is without question the biggest SF novel of the 1990s. Neal's SF novel, The Diamond Age , promises more of the same. Together, they represent a new era in science fiction. People who plow through these mind-bogglers will walk around slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality."- Details "Neal Stephenson is the Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction....Having figured out how to entertain the hell out of a mass audience, Stephenson has likewise upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee."- Village Voice " Snow Crash drew its manic energy from the cyberpunkish conceit that anything is possible in virtual reality; in The Diamond Age the wonders of cyberspace pale before the even more dazzling powers of nanotechnology." - New York Times Book Review " Diamond Age establishes Neal Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age....At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary."- USA Today "Stephenson's world-building skills are extraordinary.... The Diamond Age should cement Stephenson's reputation as one of the brightest and wittiest young authors of American science fiction."- San Diego Union-Tribune, "[Stephenson] has gotten even better.The Diamond AgeEnvisions the next century as brilliantly as snow crash did the day after tomorrow." -Newsweek "[Stephenson is] the hottest science fiction writer in America...Snow Crashis without question the biggest SF novel of the 1990s. Neal's SF novel,The Diamond Age, promises more of the same. Together, they represent a new era in science fiction. People who plow through these mind-bogglers will walk around slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality." -Details "Neal Stephenson is the Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction....Having figured out how to entertain the hell out of a mass audience, Stephenson has likewise upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee." -The Village Voice "Snow Crashdrew its manic energy from the cyberpunkish conceit that anything is possible in virtual reality; inThe Diamond Agethe wonders of cyberspace pale before the even more dazzling powers of nanotechnology." -The New York Times Book Review "Diamond Ageestablishes Neal Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age....At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary." -USA Today "Stephenson's world-building skills are extraordinary....The Diamond Ageshould cement Stephenson's reputation as one of the brightest and wittiest young authors of American science fiction." -The San Diego Union-Tribune Snow Crash "Stephenson has not stepped, he has vaulted onto the literary stage with this novel." -Los Angeles Reader "Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the 21st century." -William Gibson Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller "(Stephenson) captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it already here." -The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author ofCryptonomicon From the Trade Paperback edition.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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 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 Ladys 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 . 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.
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- a***h (25)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book was competitively priced, ordering was easy, the book was well packaged and arrived safely, and its condition was exactly as specified.The delivery time from ordering to mailbox was a little long (14 days), but overall it was a good experience and I would use this seller again.
- n***a (190)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseMy kid really wanted this, and she likes it. I don’t think the value is great, just more HP commercialism. (She paid me and I ordered, btw.) The price from this seller on eBay is less than anywhere else we found. Reviews citing LONG wait between order and receiving the items are correct: give this seller a full 2 weeks to get items to you. The set arrived carefully packaged and pristine. Overall, my daughter is very pleased with the item. If you can be patient, seller offers good value.
- 5***s (623)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseItem as described, but slow shipping. 18 days for the item to arrive. No padding in packaging, the item arrived a little beat up.