"Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sterling Bruce)

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the book, her life is changed. She enters a
fairy tale in which she is the heroine,
challenged with traversing an enchanted
world in search of the fabled twelve keys. If
Neal StephensonтАЩs dazzling novel Snow successful, she could emerge with untold
Crash set the science fiction world on fire, wisdom and power.
charting out the literary landscape of the
next millennium with wild abandon. Now Following the discovery of his crime,
this acclaimed talent has again created Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own.
a singular vision of the future. Imagine Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise,
Charles Dickens writing in the 21st squeezed by agents of Protocol Enforcement
century...and you begin to imagine life on one side and a Mandarin underworld
in The Diamond Age. crime lord on the other; he searches for an
elusive figure known as the Alchemist. His
quest and NellтАЩs will ultimately lead them to
another seeker whose fate is bound up with
the PrimerтАФa woman who holds the key to
a vast, subversive information network that
is destined to decode and reprogram the
Decades into our future, a stoneтАЩs throw future of humanity.
from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant
nanotechnologist named John Percival Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and
Hackworth has just broken the rigorous epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major
moral code of his tribe, the powerful novel from one of the most visionary writers
neo-Victorians. HeтАЩs made an illicit copy of our time.
of a state-of-the-art interactive device
called A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. NEAL STEPHENSON is the author of Snow
Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his Crash, Zodiac, and The Big U.
grandchild, stolen for HackworthтАЩs own
daughter; the PrimerтАЩs 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.

Young Nell and her brother Harv are thetes
тАФmembers of the poor; tribeless class.
Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Jacket illustration ┬й 1995 Bruce Jensen
Nell. When he and his gang waylay a certain Jacket design by Jamie S. Warren Youll
neo-VictorianтАФJohn Percival HackworthтАФ
in the seamy streets of their neighborhood,
Harv brings Nell something special: the
Primer. And from the moment she opens
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