This isn’t my favorite Stephenson novel, but it certainly occupies an important place in his corpus. Frederick George, to publish a political thriller, Interface, under the pen name 'Stephen Bury' they followed this in 1996 with The Cobweb.' (from Wikipedia). The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is no exception. Stephenson at this time would later be described by Mike Godwin as 'a slight, unassuming grad-student type whose soft-spoken demeanor gave no obvious indication that he had written the manic apotheosis of cyberpunk science fiction.' In 1994, Stephenson joined with his uncle, J. Snow Crash was the first of Stephenson's epic science fiction novels. One of the girls in the story, Fiona, later became the namesake of early Kindle development efforts, and her name now graces an office building at. When he died, it became the property of an. Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time 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. Set in 21st-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. 'Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a comic novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of extreme laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism. A little girl finds a magic book that changes her life. The diamond’s origins are dubious: according to Encyclopedia Britannica, it was likely looted by Nader Shah of Iran when he sacked Delhi in 1739. Its trademark, consisting of the words Bantam Books and. The spine endss and corners of the book has some light, but noticeable bumping and rubbing. PS3569.T3868D53 1995 81 3’.54dc2O 94-30486 CIP Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. As the first royal coronation in the social media age.

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