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CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON’S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSIC

The 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

‘If Snow Crash was so good that cyberpunk went in to a coma, The Diamond Age effectively pulled the plug’ GoodReads Review

‘This is Great Expectations with nanotechnology’ GoodReads Review

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Weight 0.32 kg
Dimensions 3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

512
Publisher

Year Published

2011-6-2
Edition Number

1st edition
Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241953197
About The Author

Neal Stephenson is the author of New York Times bestsellers including The Diamond Age, Zodiac, Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World, REAMDE, Anathem, Seveneves, Fall: or Dodge in Hell, and Termination Shock, as well as nonfiction works such as In The Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He has worked for Blue Origin and Magic Leap, and more recently co-founded Lamina1, a startup creating an open Metaverse platform.
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A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of Pygmalion ― Guardian

A wealth of hip, social and technological riffs, stories-within-stories and not a few good jokes. Invest ― Time Out

The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction. Stephenson has upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee ― Village Voice

A new era in science fiction. People will walk around slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality — Bruce Sterling

Establishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary ― USA Today
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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 nano-technology? 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.
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