The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Paperback/Neal Stephenson

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...