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Decades into our future, 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, designed to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. Unfortunately, for Hackworth, he loses his smuggled copy to a gang of street urchins in a mugging. One of the young thugs presents the primer to his little sister, Nell and suddenly her life - and perhaps the whole future of humanity - is about to be decoded and reprogrammed...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.
| ISBN | 014027037X | | Pages | 512 | | ISBN13 | 9780140270372
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 281 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 181 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 111 | | Publication date | 27 Aug 1998 | | Spine width (mm) | 32 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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