The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
 

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

by Neal Stephenson

John Percival Hackworth is a nanotech engineer on the rise when he steals a copy of "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" for his daughter Fiona. The primer is actually a super computer built with nanotechnology that was designed to educate Lord Finkle-McGraw's daughter and to teach her how to think for herself in the stifling neo-Victorian society. But Hackworth loses the primer before he... (read more)

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This, and Snow Crash, are the best geek books ever.

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  • benide

    benide said:

    This is Steampunk well before anyone knew what Steampunk was.

    posted Thursday, June 26 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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