Neal Stephenson: Diamond Age (2003, Random House Publishing Group)
185 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2003 by Random House Publishing Group.
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
It’s mid-nineties cyberpunk. Rather more convoluted and odd than many of its kin.
Quite a thick plot, lots of characters, many plot twists and more world-building in a single book than you can shake your nanobots at. Also, if you're interested in a fictionalized primer (ha!) on Turing machines, this is the book you're looking for.
