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The Difference Engine

William Gibson Bruce Sterling

'A visionary steam-powered heavy metal fantasy. Gibson and Sterling create a high-Victorian virtual reality of extraordinary richness and detail' Ridley Scott, creator of ALIEN

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreamnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot . . .

The Difference Engine

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£7.99
Paperback
384 pages
178 x 111 mm
ISBN-10: 0575600292
ISBN-13: 9780575600294
Publication: May 1996
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