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Can I read The Diamond Age on EtoBox?
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal] is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Diamond Age about?
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken therigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called *A Young Ladys 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.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.Following the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own. Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of ProtocolEnforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known
Who reads The Diamond Age?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]
- Publisher
- Spectra
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, High Tech & Hard Sci Fi
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (225 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14