The Diamond Age
Language: English
American American Science Fiction And Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction General High Tech Nanotechnology Nanotechnology & MEMS Quests (Expeditions) Revolutions Science Fiction Science Fiction - General Science Fiction - High Tech Shanghai (China) Street children Technology & Engineering Young women
Publisher: Spectra
Published: Feb 1, 1995
Description:
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.