Cyberpunk Novels

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 42. Chapters: Neuromancer, The Diamond Age, The Shockwave Rider, Snow Crash, Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors, Islands in the Net, Count Zero, All Tomorrow's Parties, He, She and It, Ware Tetralogy, Babylon Babies, When Gravity Fails, Virtual Light, Idoru, Dr. Adder, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Wetware, Manna, Software, Transparent Stained-Glass Windows, The Exile Kiss, Signal to Noise, A Fire in the Sun, Tea from an Empty Cup, Dreaming Metal, Breakpoint, Ambient, Polymorph, Mindplayers, Night Sky Mine, Eclipse Trilogy, Voice of the Whirlwind, Trouble and Her Friends, A Signal Shattered, The Enclaves. Excerpt: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main motifs include: education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence. The Diamond Age was first published in 1995 by Bantam Books, as a Bantam Spectra hardcover edition. In 1996, it won both the Hugo and Locus Awards, and was shortlisted for the Nebula and other awards, placing it among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history. A six-hour mini series adapted from the novel is being developed for the Syfy Channel. The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete (or person without a tribe; equivalent to the lowest working class) living in the Leased Territories, a lowland slum belt on the artificial, diamondoid island of New Chusan, located offshore from the mouth of the Yangtze River, northwest of Shanghai. At age 4, Nell receives a stolen copy of an interactive book, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propaedeutic Enchiridion in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends, kin, associates, .