Sci-Fi & Speculative
by Neal Stephenson
A sentient book designed to raise a girl into an independent thinker falls into the hands of Nell, a child of the London underclass in a nanotechnology-saturated future. Stephenson's novel is a Dickensian bildungsroman set in a world of programmable matter, where the Primer teaches Nell to read, fight, and question the system that was never built for someone like her.
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