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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
by Neal Stephenson
I love this book because many other novel involve nanotechnology, but treat it vaguely like magic - "oh yes, they have nanotechnology so they teleported through the enemy territory." Stephenson obviously took a long time to figure out the social and cultural shifts that nanotechnology would provide, and how society could stabilize given such a ridiculously dangerous technology. It really makes you think.
It's also a great imaginative book. Reminds me a bit of the Neuromancer trilogy, but it's post-cyberpunk so everything is a lot more optimistic. Watching the main character grow up reading her Illustrated Primer occasionally brough tears to my eyes. It's a great story about childhood too.
It's also a great imaginative book. Reminds me a bit of the Neuromancer trilogy, but it's post-cyberpunk so everything is a lot more optimistic. Watching the main character grow up reading her Illustrated Primer occasionally brough tears to my eyes. It's a great story about childhood too.