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The Difference Engine

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling

Cover of The Difference Engine

Published 1990 by Gollancz · 429 pages

Nebula Nominee 1992
Science Fiction

Synopsis

In an alternate Victorian England where Charles Babbage perfected his mechanical computer, the Information Age arrives a century early, transforming British society into an industrial technocracy. Three intertwined narratives follow a paleontologist, a diplomat, and a female adventurer through a London of steam-driven calculation engines, political intrigue, and ecological catastrophe.

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US

ISBN

9780575047624

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