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The Difference Engine : one man, many lives, same difference - Mark J. Suddaby

The Difference Engine

one man, many lives, same difference

By: Mark J. Suddaby

Paperback | 27 January 2026

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Imagine modern day England under Soviet rule; Caliphate rule; Nazi Rule; Roman rule
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In 1961, the first manned Soviet space flight successfully orbits the Earth. In 1191, Christian crusaders defeat Saladin but turn back before Jerusalem. In 1939, the F¼hrer gives his beer hall speech before planning the invasion of Europe. In 61, the Iceni lose a great battle to rid their lands of its Romani invaders.

Except that none of these events ever took place.

I am Gillan Pots: farmhand in Soviet Britain; fighter in the English Emirate; official of the British Reich; plebeian in Imperial Brittania. I have lucid dreams of a different world, one that is more real to me than these substitute lives, and all I want is for the echoes through time to stop picking at my addled brain. But the engine of the universe is not so forgiving: it has other plans for me as it keeps re-gearing the world, and all so that I can be the difference.

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