The Difference Engine
Description
Imagine a Victorian England where Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was not just a theoretical marvel but a reality, ushering in an age of steam-powered computation. This alternate history plunges readers into a world of intricate clockwork automatons, daring espionage, and the burgeoning power of information. As a stolen punch tape containing radical political ideas changes hands, a diverse cast of characters—from a radical politician and a pioneering woman cryptographer to a disgraced politician and a daring pilot—are drawn into a thrilling chase across continents. The Difference Engine masterfully weaves together themes of technological determinism, social upheaval, and the enduring human drive for progress and control in a richly imagined, meticulously detailed world.
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paperback
Spectra
Published Jan 1, 1992
445 pages
ISBN: 9780553294613
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First Published
1990
Language
eng
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