1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel
1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee)
1996 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee)
1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1996 Prometheus Award (nominee)
A nanotechnologist, John Hackworth, breaks the moral code of his tribe, the neo-Victorians. He has made an illict copy of a device called "A Young Lady's Primer". Its purpose is to raise and educate a girl capable of thinking for herself, but Hackworth's copy has fallen into the wrong hands.
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
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