Hackworth's sentence is suspended after he agrees to work for the tribe that put him on trial. She becomes friends with two other girls who also own the magical book, Elizabeth and Fiona.ĭuring this time, Hackworth's trickery gets him in trouble with the law and he is sentenced to ten years. She starts to study at an academy attended by the upper class Victorians. Nell moves to Dovetail, a community of artisans working to produce goods for the Victorians. However, her family situation deteriorates quickly and she is forced to flee her home along with her brother, who had given her the book in the first place. With the help of the "magical" book, Nell starts to learn to read, write, and exercise her judgment and her body.
This copy gets stolen and falls in the hands of a little girl with no social status named Nell. The book is supposed to be unique, but the author decides to make a copy for his own daughter. He is hired by Lord Alexander Finkle-McGraw to write a book for his four-year-old granddaughter Elizabeth. John Percival Hackworth, a high-level engineer working for Bespoke, is also a Victorian. They differentiate themselves by speaking a sophisticated yet somewhat outdated form of Victorian English and by using "real" material. The aristocratic Victorians own most of the companies that provide the consumer goods and real estate to the rest of the world. This island hosts an enclave for the most powerful and wealthiest tribe on earth: the Victorians.
The story starts on an artificial island located in the South China Sea, named Atlantis/Shanghai. The novel also examines the potential for social divisions in a world where there is no country and where the rules of the free market determine the fate of society. The Diamond Age is set in the later part of the twenty-first century, although no exact time reference is provided. The novel takes place on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, near the Asian continent. The action revolves around three main characters: Nell, a little girl who grows up to become an important player in her world with the help of a "magical" storybook John Percival Hackworth, the author and software engineer behind the book and finally, Miranda, an actor who provides the interactive voice for the characters in the book and who forms a bond with the reader through the book's networked interface. The Diamond Age is a science-fiction novel that anticipates the development of nanotechnology and reflects on its social consequences.
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