Editing The Diamond Age (section)

==Reception==
===Reviews===
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Michael Berry of the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] wrote: "Stephenson's world-building skills are extraordinary, and while he sometimes lets his narrative ramble or grow complicated, he can be depended upon to serve up plenty of clever extrapolations."<ref>{{cite news |date=January 8, 1995 |first=Michael |last=Berry |title=A High-Tech Victorian Romp |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/a-high-tech-victorian-romp-3049387.php |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119073341/https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/a-high-tech-victorian-romp-3049387.php |archive-date=2015-01-19 }}</ref>
Gerald Jonas of ''[[The New York Times]]'': "While the final chapters of the novel veer toward the stylistic excesses that marred ''[[Snow Crash]]'', Mr. Stephenson mostly holds to his theme."<ref>{{cite news |date=12 March 1995 |last=Jonas |first=Gerald |title=Science Fiction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/books/science-fiction.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526142929/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/books/science-fiction.html |archive-date=2015-05-26 }}</ref>
Marc Laidlaw of ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' praised the characters, the setting, and called the "rich and polished, the inventiveness unceasing" but found it ultimately disappointing saying Stephenson "gave himself an enormous task and nearly succeeded in all respects, instead of "merely" most of them."<ref name="Laidlaw">{{cite web |date=1995-05-01 |last1=Laidlaw |first1=Marc |title=Nanotech Writ Large |url=https://www.wired.com/1995/05/nanotech-writ-large/ |website=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221150733/https://www.wired.com/1995/05/nanotech-writ-large/ |archive-date=2016-12-21}}</ref>  Publishers Weekly praised the novel, stating that it “presents its sometimes difficult technical concepts in accessible ways”.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780553096095 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928085624/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780553096095 |archive-date=2022-09-28 |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>

===Awards===
In 1996, it won both the [[Hugo Award|Hugo]] and [[Locus Award|Locus]] Awards, and was shortlisted for the [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] and other awards.<ref name="WWE-1996">{{Cite web | url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1996 |title=1996 Award Winners & Nominees |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=2009-07-20 }}</ref>