A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of <i>Pygmalion</i>

Guardian

A wealth of hip, social and technological riffs, stories-within-stories and not a few good jokes. Invest

Time Out

The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction. Stephenson has upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee

Village Voice

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A new era in science fiction. People will walk around slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality

- Bruce Sterling,

Establishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary

USA Today

CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON'S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSICThe future is small. The future is nano . . .And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nanotechnology?Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit, magical, dangerous.And it isn't Nell's. It was stolen. And now some very powerful people want to get their hands on this highly desirable object. Nell is about to discover that the world can feel very small indeed . . .'6.0 stars. Among the best books I have ever read' GoodReads Review'If Snow Crash was so good that cyberpunk went in to a coma, The Diamond Age effectively pulled the plug' GoodReads Review'This is Great Expectations with nanotechnology' GoodReads Review
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The future is nano ... And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell - an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer.
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A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of Pygmalion

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241953198
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
351 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
512

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic 'The Baroque Cycle' (Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World) as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age (winner of a Hugo Award), Snow Crash, Zodiac, Anathem and Reamde. He lives in Seattle, Washington.