L'Âge de diamant ou le manuel illustré d'éducation à l'usage de filles

mass market paperback, 635 pages

Langue : French

Publié 1 janvier 1998 par LGF.

ISBN :
978-2-253-07210-2
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Numéro OCLC :
406219229

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3 étoiles (3 critiques)

The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.

24 éditions

a publié une critique de The Diamond Age par Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)

Diamond Age > Golden Age

Aucune note

It's a long ago I've read this book.

I remember espacially the society Stephenson has createdd for this story.

The Victorian Age was seen as a Golden Age by the tech bros of the 90's. The society of this book is basically the Victorian Age pumpt up with nano tech stuff. A Golden Age++ or a "Diamond Age"

a publié une critique de The Diamond Age par Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)

Simultaneously better and worse than Snow Crash

4 étoiles

I have to say, this was a fun read. And like the author's book Snow Crash from 3 years prior, it features a young girl protagonist, nation-state world-building, a sometimes awkward treatment of Asia, and sections of excessive violence.

In some ways, the book aged a lot better than Snow Crash. The world has made VR a thing which means a lot of the computer-related predictions from Snow Crash feel laughable, but we're nowhere near the level of nanotechnology in A Diamond Age. Snow Crash is a book of the 90s. The Diamond Age feels good even today.

Where this book let me down, however, was in how the plot was woven together. There are a lot of interesting characters that never get the attention they should. I don't demand that all plot threads get tied up in a nice neat bow (I think Anathem even went a bit too …