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

Author - Neal Stephenson ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Spectra was reviewed on 15-Mar-2009.

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1) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. An absolute must read...if you like Larry Niven, Orson Scott Card or Dan Simmons Hyperion series you should like this very, very much. Phenomenal...

I have two first editions and now the Kindle book!¤

2) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. Stephenson has created a beautiful hyper-reality tale of transformation and empowerment with Diamond age.

This story exists at the periphery of cyberpunk, yet manages to draw in readers who might normally be turned off by the technical jargon so common in the genre. The real story, one of revolution, is buried within the fast paced, strange world Stephenson creates, and is impossible to put down.¤

3) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. "The Diamond Age" presents some fascinating and not outlandish future tech visions. Mixed with outstanding insight into political, sociological, moral and educational concepts that caught me by surprise, halfway through the book, I thought I had stumbled onto GREATNESS. Unfortunately, starting with the undersea drummers society, the interlacing arc of ideas began to go off course and Neal or his editor seemed to push the self-destruct button and wrapped it up in a hurry.

"A Young Lady´s Illustrated Primer" will be on the futures ´Wish List´ of every parent who reads this book.¤

4) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. Really enjoyed this book. I continue to read Neal´s stuff out-of-publication order. Published between Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, I can now see it´s a bridge in writing/plotting quality between those two works. The plotting and character development were more sophisticated. It lacked that "manic pop thrill" of Snow Crash... SC was more of an action/adventure book. But Stephenson did a better job integrating his theoretical concepts in this work.

Once again, a must-read for any Neal fans that haven´t yet read it. Readers unfamiliar with speculative fiction will have a harder time and it´s not necessarily recommended for them.¤

5) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. I had the privilege of hear Dr. Eric Drexler speak at the MIT Media Lab about the time this book was published. One of my professors in college got me hooked on the idea of nanotechnnology. It´s promise and perils.
This is one of the books I consider to have greatly influenced me. Now, 14 years later, I look back and reflect at this novel. In college and among a few other people I shared my limited understanding of nanotechnology. Most people I spoke to thought I was somewhat insane. Now nanotechnology is not only a "buzzworld", but short of creating the assembler, is being taken out of the world of the theoretical into practical use. It is a permanent feature in my personal library and I recommend this book to just about anyone.¤

6) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....¤

7) Paperback Book The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Spectra. 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 can give it to Fiona, and now the "book" has fallen into the hands of young Nell, an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change.¤

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