I have finished reading Neal Stephenson’s, The Diamond Age. Having read another of his books, I am still amazed that he can come up with worlds that are so unique, different and yet feasible. This book was a very good read and had a great plot being spread over many years. The story is rife with nano-technology, fairy tales and human subversion. My only grip is that the ending wasn’t there… it ended just a chapter or two early!!
The official review: A nanotechnologist, John Hackworth, breaks the moral code of his tribe, the neo-Victorians. He has made an illict copy of a device called “A Young Lady’s Primer”. Its purpose is to raise and educate a girl capable of thinking for herself, but Hackworth’s copy has fallen into the wrong hands.