The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

I found a list of the Top 100 Sci Fi Stories not too long ago and there were a few titles I haven’t read.    Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age came in at 58.  The Diamond Age was written in 1995, which makes it one of the younger books on the list and one that I missed when it came out. In our own world, where any random question can be answered with a quick Google and it hasn’t even created a world of better Jeopardy players, The Diamond Age seems a bit quaint.  It’s the story of poor ignorant…

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