Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous 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, stolen for Hackworth's own daughter, the Primer's purpose is to educate and raise a girl capable of thinking for herself. It performs its function superbly. Unfortunately for Hackworth, his smuggled copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
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Author: Neal Stephenson
Price: $7.90 *Individual store prices may vary.
ISBN: 0553096095
Publisher: Spectra
Year of Publication: 1995
Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction,
Subgenre: Cyberpunk,
Awards: Hugo Award, Locus Award,
Date Read: Apr 20, 1996
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