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The Diamond Age Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Publication date
2002-10
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780141886282
Language
eng
Science Fiction
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About the book

Far above the diamondoid bedrock of New Chusan, a class of neo-Victorians is ruling 21st-century Atlantis/Shanghai. John Percival Hackworth, a nanotechnologist, has created an illicit, magical book for the education of a young lady: a device crammed with folklore, science and the martial arts that teaches women how to think for themselves.