num_pages: 499
description: The future is small. The future is nano...And who could be smaller or more insignificant than poor Little Nell – an orphan girl alone and adrift in a world of Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and warring nano-technology?Well, not quite alone. Because Nell has a friend, of sorts. A guide, a teacher, an armed and unarmed combat instructor, a book and a computer: the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is all these and much much more. It is illicit, magical, dangerous.And it isn't Nell's. It was stolen. And now some very powerful people want to get their hands on this highly desirable object. Nell is about to discover that the world can feel very small indeed...
language: English
title: The Diamond Age
titlecomplete: The Diamond Age
characters: Judge Fang, Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw, Carl Hollywood, Harv, King Coyote, Lord Alexcander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw, Bud, Gwendolyn Hackworth, Miss Matheson, Ms. Miranda Redpath, Fiona Hackworth, Major Napier, Mr. Chang, Demetrius James Cotton, Mr. PhyrePhox, John Percival Hackworth, Nell, Miss Pao, Dr. X
genres: Science Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Hugo Awards, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 88944
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: Penguin Books