The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

The Diamond Age by Neal StephensonThe future is small. The future is nano . . . And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo Victorian values and warring nano technology? Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit,

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