1.5 starsI was bored beyond any hope of deriving pleasure or even interest in this story. He is very heavy of his world-building, with copious and lenghthy descriptions of technology and the neoVictorian culture, but it is all too clearly a theme book, everything wrapped around his premise about thi...
A dense science fiction novel from the author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. The Diamond Age takes place in a future where nano technology is what separates the classes. Nano technology is likened to viruses, swimming through your system with it's own agenda, designed by engineers. The focus of th...
May 15, 2000I love this book, because of the primer within. For that matter, I'd expect anyone who enjoyed books as a child to love the primer, which is the most marvelous book ever. And then there's the steampunk of nanotech and New Victorians, and the crazy Heinlein subplot, and the girl, Nell, i...
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