A brilliant, tricky, twenty-first-century version of Pygmalion

A wealth of hip, social and technological riffs, stories-within-stories and not a few good jokes. Invest

The Quentin Tarantino of postcyberpunk science fiction. Stephenson has upped the form's ante with rambunctious glee

A new era in science fiction. People will walk around slack-jawed for days and reemerge with a radically redefined sense of reality

Establishes Stephenson as a powerful voice for the cyber age. At once whimsical, satirical, and cautionary

It's always a pleasure to welcome a new novel by one of the world's funniest writers

Tom Sharpe fans will be delighted with this hilarious treat

Riotous

Fiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.

Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.

Imaginative and transporting, but entirely unfussy and unsentimental, the novel is written with a glint in the eye that gives it that extra bit of wind beneath its wings