6/28/2023 0 Comments The diamond age stephenson![]() ![]() He is, in some ways, the founding father of the phyle. If you're not a member of any phyle, you're known as a thete.Ī leading member of the Neo-Victorian phyle is Lord Alexander Finkle-McGraw. Then there are other, lesser, phyles: the Armenians, the Jesuits, the Senderos, the Drummers, the Ashantis, and so on. There is also the phyle of the Celestial Kingdom, which more or less follows the moral code of Confucius. The dominant phyle is the Neo-Victorians (or 'Vickys') of New Atlantis, who are masters in engineering, and who follow the stiff moral code of the Victorians. Each individual can choose what phyle they belong to, and therefore what moral code they will be expected to adhere to. The book is set 100 years in the future, when society is divided into various cultures, or phyles. I've just read Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age for the second time. ![]()
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