The Difference Engine

Paperback | 1 January 1992

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1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history--and the future:
"Sybil Gerard"--a fallen woman, politician's tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator
"Edward "Leviathan" Mallory"--explorer and paleontologist
"Laurence Oliphant"--diplomat, mystic, and spy.
Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for....
Part detective story, part historical thriller, "The Difference Engine" is the collaborative masterpiece by two of the most acclaimed science fiction authors writing today. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions--and the beginning of movement we know today as "steampunk!"

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"Breathtaking."--"The New York Times Book Review""Smartly plotted, wonderfully crafted, and written with sly literary wit . . . spins marvelously and runs like a dream."--"Entertainment Weekly" "Splendid . . . highly imaginative."--"Chicago Tribune" "A ripping adventure yarn."--"Los Angeles Times" "[A] tour-de-force."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer""From the Trade Paperback edition."

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