The Diamond Age, (Paperback)

from aplomb1

The Diamond Age seems larger than its 500 pages, and Stephenson's vision of the future, while transformed nearly into unrecognizability by technology, has the grain of our own reality. We are shown...

from manque

Unique and absorbing. Better than Stephenson's _Snow Crash_. The story-within-a-story of Princess Nell of the magic book, the dual backdrops of a nanotech future and a sweeping colonial/imperial pa...

from Radaghast

The Diamond Age is the culmination of Stephenson's Snow Crash universe. It is the logical conclusion of the breakdown of national government, the creation of powerful nanotechnology, and the reshap...

from PghDragonMan

The Diamond Age, is another excellent speculative fiction work from the pen of Neal Stephenson. While reminiscent of William Gibson's cyberpunk vision of the future, this future is on a decidedly d...

from melydia

To be perfectly frank, I don't get it. The story begins with a man named Hackworth creating an interactive primer for his young daughter, but before he can give it to her he is mugged by a gang of ...