num_pages: 18
description: Decades into our future, near the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken a strict 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, and then stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer's purpose is to educate and raise a girl who is capable of thinking for herself. It performs its functions superbly. Unfortunately, the book has fallen into the wrong hands. Now Hackworth must begin an odyssey of his own. Expelled from the neo Victorian paradise, he seeks out the elusive figure known as the Alchemist. His quest ultimately leads him 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 reprogram the future of humanity.Read by Jennifer Wiltsie.Description:	12 audiocassettes (approximately 18 hr.) : analog
language: English
title: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
titlecomplete: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
characters: King Coyote, Demetrius James Cotton, Miss Matheson, Mr. PhyrePhox, Nell, Major Napier, Mr. Chang, Ms. Miranda Redpath, Fiona Hackworth, Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw, Miss Pao, Harv, Gwendolyn Hackworth, John Percival Hackworth, Dr. X, Judge Fang, Carl Hollywood, Bud, Lord Alexcander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw
genres: Fiction, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Dystopia, Steampunk, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy
ratings_count: 88966
places: China, Shanghai
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prometheus Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks