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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Bee
Sep 21, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Everything you want from a sci-fi book. Amazing concept, very detailed, well realised world, a future evolved from our world, but far enough away to be alien and strange, down the rabbit hole of possibilities. Nano-tech drives this world and we print everything we need in fabricators in our homes. Strange new political realities where there are claves of Neo-Victorians in their black old fashioned suites and skirts and prim moralities. but best of all is the story itself, a young girl raised by ...more
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Sep 15, 2012 rated it it was amazing
A prodigious feat of science fiction extrapolation that left me feeling like I could almost, but not quite, fit together all the pieces. Since many of the pieces are microscopic nanotech structures, this was pretty darn good.

While deeply impressed by Stephenson's vision of a world refashioned by nanotechnology, I was even more intrigued by his imagined 21st Century political milieu. The Nation State has met its demise, replaced by world-wide tribal affiliations evolved along racial and cultural
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