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steals it from Hackworth. Hackworth's crime becomes known to Dr. X, the black market engineer whose compiler Hackworth used to create the copy of the Primer, and later Lord Finkle-McGraw. Hackworth is compelled by both to advance their opposing goals. Another storyline follows actress ("ractor") Miranda Redpath, who voices most of the Primer characters who interact with Nell and effectively becomes a surrogate mother to Nell. After Miranda disappears in her quest to find Nell, her storyline continues from the point of view of her boss, Carl Hollywood.
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judge who sentences Bud to death in the beginning of the book. He also investigates Hackworth's mugging by Harv and his gang. As a civil official with deep Confucian principles, his decision to let Nell keep the stolen primer is one of the pivotal plot elements that allows Nell's story to unfold. The
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features intersecting story lines: the social downfall of the nanotech engineer designer of the Primer, John Percival Hackworth, who makes an unauthorized copy of the Primer for his own young daughter, Fiona, and Nell's education through her independent work with the Primer after her brother Harv
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The phyles coexist much like historical nation-states under a system of justice and mutual protection, known as the Common Economic Protocol (CEP). The rules of the CEP are intended to provide for the co-existence of, and peaceful economic activity between, phyles with potentially very different
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praised the characters, the setting, and called the "rich and polished, the inventiveness unceasing" but found it ultimately disappointing saying Stephenson "gave himself an enormous task and nearly succeeded in all respects, instead of "merely" most of them."
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Dickens immediately surfaces as a point of comparison, not only because of the size of the book but because the future Stephenson presents his readers with is, in many respects, a skewed reflection and imitation of the Victorian
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mystery series, which is based around a Confucian judge in ancient China who usually solves three cases simultaneously. The Judge Dee stories are based on the tradition of Chinese mysteries, transposing key elements into Western
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in a covert power struggle between the Neo-Victorians and the Chinese Celestial Kingdom. Hackworth is forced to spend ten years with a colony of "Drummers," using their distributed intelligence (similar but not identical to
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affiliated or belonging to different phyles within a single metropolis. Most phyles depicted in the novel have a global scope of sovereignty, and maintain segregated enclaves in or near many cities throughout the world.
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wrote: "Stephenson's world-building skills are extraordinary, and while he sometimes lets his narrative ramble or grow complicated, he can be depended upon to serve up plenty of clever extrapolations." Gerald Jonas of
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as defined by Lord Finkle-McGraw, and growing up to be an effective member of society. The most important quality to achieving an interesting life is deemed to be a subversive attitude towards the
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Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after the materials that humans could make, we might call the new technological epoch we are entering the Diamond Age.
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fallout from that choice leads him to question his allegiances to the Coastal Republic (which rules Shanghai and the surrounding area), and he eventually joins the inland Celestial Kingdom.
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Matter compilers receive their raw materials from the Feed, a system analogous to the electrical grid of modern society. The Feed carries streams of both energy and basic
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Charles Dickens. The novel's neo-Victorian setting, as well as its narrative form, particularly the chapter headings, suggest a relation to the work of
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and the products that come out of them. The book explicitly recognizes the achievements of several existing nanotechnology researchers:
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Miksanek, Tony (2001). "Microscopic Doctors and Molecular Black Bags: Science Fiction's Prescription for Nanotechnology and Medicine".
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also includes fully narrated educational tales from the Primer that map Nell's individual experience (e.g. her four toy friends) onto
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And the update on Judge Dee is utterly wonderful, with the Confucian classics given loving attention.
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was codenamed "Fiona", as a deliberate reference to the Illustrated Primer and Fiona Hackworth.
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that take central technological materials to define an entire era of human history, such as the
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future depicted in the novel, these cultural divisions have largely supplanted the system of
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defensive micromachines, and public matter compilers provide basic food, blankets, and water
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whose "equity lords" rule the organization and its bylaws under allegiance to the vestigial
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Judge Dee mysteries. The novel's character Judge Fang is based on a creative extension of
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Brigg, Peter (1999). "The Future as the Past Viewed from the Present: Neal Stephenson's
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that can show personalized news headlines. Major cities have immune systems made up of
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affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class,
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Berends, Jan Berrien (1997). "The Politics of Neal Stephenson's the Diamond Age".
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in Merkle-Hall, where new nanotechnological items are designed and constructed.
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heritage, a common religion, or other cultural similarities. In the extremely
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The book distinguishes between the four Great Phyles: the Han (consisting of
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at will, it will become possible to simply assemble diamond structures from
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The book contains descriptions of various exotic technologies, such as the
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values. The CEP is concerned particularly with upholding rights to
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that divides the world today. Cities appear divided into sovereign
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of Smokehouse Productions as executive producers on the project.
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but also accepting Indians, Africans, and other members of the
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Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
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island of New Chusan, located offshore from the mouth of the
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together according to some formula we don't get") and the
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depicts a near-future world revolutionised by advances in
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phyle, he is executed for this crime early in the novel.
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The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson
Bruce Jensen
Science fiction
Postcyberpunk
Bantam Spectra
Cassette
MP3 CD
e-book
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Hugo Award for Best Novel
ISBN
0-553-09609-5
ISBN
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OCLC
30894530
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
science fiction
Neal Stephenson
Bildungsroman
coming-of-age story
nanotechnology
ethnicity
artificial intelligence
Bantam Books
Bantam Spectra
Hugo
Locus

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