An edition of The Diamond Age (1995)

The diamond age

or, Young lady's illustrated primer

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An edition of The Diamond Age (1995)

The diamond age

or, Young lady's illustrated primer

  • 4.1 (82 ratings) ·
  • 160 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 102 Have read

Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, 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. Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer's purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.

It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.

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Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes - members of the poor, tribeless class. Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell. When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian - John Percival Hackworth - in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer. And from the moment she opens the book, her life is changed. She enters a fairy tale in which she is the heroine, challenged with traversing an enchanted world in search of the fabled twelve keys.

If successful, she could emerge with untold wisdom and power.

Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own. Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of Protocol Enforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known as the Alchemist.

His quest and Nell's will ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the Primer - a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive information network that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.

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Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Pages
455

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Diamond Age
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
May 2, 2000, Spectra
Paperback in English
Cover of: The diamond age
The diamond age
2000, Bantam Books
in English - Bantam trade reissue.
Cover of: L'Âge de diamant
L'Âge de diamant: Ou le manuel illustré d'éducation à l'usage de filles
1998, LGF
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: The Diamond Age
The Diamond Age
August 27, 1998, Penguin Books Ltd
Cover of: The diamond age
The diamond age
1996, Bantam Books
in English - Bantam pbk. ed.
Cover of: The diamond age
The diamond age: or, Young lady's illustrated primer
1995, Bantam Books
Hardcover in English

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Edition Notes

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Published in
New York
Series
A Bantam spectra book
Other Titles
Diamond age, Young lady's illustrated primer

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3569.T3868 D53 1995

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
455 p.
Number of pages
455

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1105350M
Internet Archive
diamondageoryoun00step
ISBN 10
0553096095
LCCN
94030486
OCLC/WorldCat
314194775, 30894530
Library Thing
12987
Wikidata
Q101505400
Goodreads
1056946

Work Description

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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November 4, 2022 Edited by Stew Delete translators from author list.
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