The diamond age

or, Young lady's illustrated primer

Hardcover, 455 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 1995 von Bantam Books veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-553-09609-5
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OCLC-Nummer:
314194775

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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.

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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. And from the moment …

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