The Diamond Age

E-book

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2003 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-89820-0
OCLC Number:: 232547111

(1 review)

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.

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Antonis reads reviewed The diamond age by Neal Stephenson (Bantam spectra book)

Plotty

2 stars

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.