![]() ![]() Jacket illustration © 1995 Bruce Jensen Jacket design by Jamie S. NEAL STEPHENSON is the author of Snow Crash, Zodiac, and The Big U. ![]() 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. 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. 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. Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own. If successful, she could emerge with untold wisdom and power. She enters a fairy tale in which she is the heroine, challenged with traversing an enchanted world in search of the fabled twelve keys. 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. ![]() Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell. Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes -members of the poor tribeless class. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands. 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. He’s made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Imagine Charles Dickens writing in the 21st century.and you begin to imagine life in The Diamond Age.ĭecades 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. Now this acclaimed talent has again created a singular vision of the future. 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. ![]()
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