1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee)
1996 Hugo Award for Best Novel
1996 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee)
1996 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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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