The Diamond Age
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4.1 • 48 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
CULT AUTHOR NEAL STEPHENSON'S UNSTOPPABLE SCI-FI CLASSIC
The 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 nanotechnology?
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, magical, dangerous.
And it isn't Nell's. It was stolen. And now some very powerful people want to get their hands on this highly desirable object. Nell is about to discover that the world can feel very small indeed . . .
'6.0 stars. Among the best books I have ever read' GoodReads Review
'If Snow Crash was so good that cyberpunk went in to a coma, The Diamond Age effectively pulled the plug' GoodReads Review
'This is Great Expectations with nanotechnology' GoodReads Review
Customer Reviews
Poor Proofreading Spoils This Fantastic Book
This review WOULD have 5 stars if only the editors/submitters of this book had actually bothered to proofread it.
This is possibly my favourite book, having read it a number of times. It is well written, has a fantastic plot and I'd recommend it to anyone.
The proofreading of this digital edition is pretty dire though and has spoiled slightly an otherwise fantastic book. The text of this book appears to have been scanned from a hardcopy and not proofread. There is at least one typo on every page and in some places as many as ten.
As I said I'd thoroughly recommend this book. Just not this edition until the typos are fixed. Apple and the publishers. You need to do better.
Desperately needs proofreading
The novel is one of my very favourites but this edition is practically unreadable from typos and formatting errors.
THE LAST PAGE IS MISSING it has been digitised so poorly...
Get it sorted out, please - paying customers don't deserve this half-measured rubbish.
Typos galore
As other reviewers have noted, this book has not been proof read and there are errors on every page. This is completely unacceptable. Snow crash suffers from the same problem.
The lack of care shown for this fantastic authors work is very disappointing.