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The Diamond Age
512 pages1995
RevolutionsOpen Library Staff PicksQuests (Expeditions)FictionHugo Award Winner
About This Book
Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time Decades into our future, a stoneβs throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the ri...
Reading Time Estimates
13h 2m
slow reader
180 WPM
9h 23m
average reader
250 WPM
6h 42m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 140,800 wordsπ
19 days at 30 min/day
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Audiobook (1.5x)
10 hours 26 min
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15 hours 39 min
Audio 2x
7 hours 49 min
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