The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls in the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life and the entire future of humanity is about to be decoded and reprogrammed