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050 00 $aPS3569.T3868$bD53 1995
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aStephenson, Neal.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82269163
245 14 $aThe diamond age /$cNeal Stephenson.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam Books,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9502
300 $a455 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aBantam spectra book
520 $aDecades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. Commissioned by an eccentric duke for his grandchild, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer's purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself.
520 8 $aIt performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aYoung Nell and her brother Harv are thetes - members of the poor, tribeless class. Neglected by their mother, Harv looks after Nell. When he and his gang waylay a certain neo-Victorian - John Percival Hackworth - in the seamy streets of their neighborhood, Harv brings Nell something special: the Primer. And from the moment she opens 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.
520 8 $aIf successful, she could emerge with untold wisdom and power.
520 8 $aFollowing the discovery of his crime, Hackworth begins an odyssey of his own. Expelled from the neo-Victorian paradise, squeezed by agents of Protocol Enforcement on one side and a Mandarin underworld crime lord on the other, he searches for an elusive figure known as the Alchemist.
520 8 $aHis quest and Nell's will ultimately lead them to another seeker whose fate is bound up with the Primer - a woman who holds the key to a vast, subversive information network that is destined to decode and reprogram the future of humanity.
740 0 $aDiamond age.
740 0 $aYoung lady's illustrated primer.
830 0 $aBantam spectra book.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84716834
852 00 $bglx$hPS3569.T3868$iD53 1995