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 In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.©1995 Neal Stephenson (P)2001 Audible, Inc. Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction Cyberpunk China

What the critics say

  • Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1996

  • Locus Award Winner, Best Novel, 1996

"The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction." (The Village Voice)
"[He] is the hottest science fiction writer in America." (Details)
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Just like all of Neal’s books, he builds these elaborate set ups that somehow culminate into a collision of multiple different characters meeting up into an epic action movie sequence. The premise was definitely a slow build up for what I thought was a crazy turn of events. Totally recommend it if you can get through some otherwise slow plots.

Interesting but weird end

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what more can i say? it's a great book. this recording is, by contemporary standards, garbage.

this amazing book must be re-recorded

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One of my favourite books brought to life by a lovely and subtle performance.

Amazing.

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Really good story that makes you think and examine the world like good sci-fi should.

So good

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I'm 14h through the book right now. The book is great - typical Neal : separate stories converging in a masterful way.

However, at around the 13h mark, the audio becomes really hit or miss. Every couple of minutes, you get some weird corruption / compression artifact. I've deleted the content and redownloaded, Switched to high quality, to no avail.

I've just reached out to Audible to hopefully fix that or get a refund because now I'm missing critical plot points every 3-4 minutes.

Great book - bad recording with audio glitches

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