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Books like The Diamond Age
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson is about education, technology and society, class. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson · Science fiction
Hiro Protagonist — yes, that's his name — is a freelance hacker and part-time pizza deliveryman in a near-future America that has fractured into private corporate enclaves.
Read the summary → - Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson · Science fiction
Cryptonomicon weaves together two storylines separated by half a century: World War II codebreakers and intelligence operatives running secret missions across the Pacific, and their grandchildren in the 1990s building a data haven in a fictional Southeast Asian country.
Read the summary → - Neuromancer
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William Gibson · Science fiction
Case is a washed-up computer hacker living in the sprawl of near-future Chiba City, Japan.
Read the summary → - Permutation City
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Greg Egan · Science fiction
Permutation City opens in the mid-21st century, when wealthy individuals can run copies of themselves as digital simulations — Copies — in real time or at slower clock speeds depending on the computing budget they can afford.
Read the summary → - Foundation
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Isaac Asimov · Science fiction
Foundation opens at the peak of a twelve-thousand-year empire that mathematician Hari Seldon knows is about to collapse.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
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