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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.
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Contemporary, epic, grave and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Neal Stephenson
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Brilliance Audio, Easton Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780553898200
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Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque. Stephenson's work explores subjects such as mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as *Wired*. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a m
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