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The Difference Engine
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| Author: |
William Gibson Bruce Sterling |
| Publisher: |
Gollancz, 1990 Bantam Spectra, 1990 |
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| Awards: |
1990 BSFA Nominated 1991 Nebula Nominated 1992 Campbell Nominated |
| Lists: |
The ISFDB Top 100 Books (Balanced List) |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Alternate/Parallel Universe Alternate History (SF) Steampunk |
| Member Rating: |
   (14 reads / 10 ratings)
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Synopsis
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...
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William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's novel The Difference Engine is something I read during my research period which was hugely influential, and I'm pretty sure it was that book that introduced me to the historical figure of Ada Lovelace ... - 650 E-books Formatted for Kindle(bebo) - Rapidshare Forums
483 The Difference Engine - William Gibson 484 The Dogs Of War - Frederick Forsyth 485 The Doomsday Conspiracy - Sidney Sheldon 486 The Door into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein 487 The Door to December - Dean R. Koontz ... 522 The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling 523 The Haunted Earth - Dean R. Koontz 524 The heritage of the desert a novel - Zane Grey 525 The HitchHikers Guide to Galaxy - Douglas Adams 526 The hobbit, or, There and back again - J. R. R. Tolkien ... - Steampunk
It really took off in 1990 with the publication of The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Steampunk is based around a couple of alternate history ideas: one in which steam power retained its influence and spread ... - Steampink week: review of the steampunk classic, the Difference Engine
Set in a Victorian Steampunkish London that takes a turn away from the Tory history of England we know so well, The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling offers up a mixture of fantasy, scientific conjecture, ... - jennybuttons What a Difference a Difference Engine Makes
About fifteen years ago they told me to read The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. It is set in an alternative universe in Victorian England; one where Charles Babbage actually managed to build his mechanical ... - SF -The Difference Engine William Gibson and Bruce Sterling- NEW ...
The Difference Engine William Gibson and Bruce Sterling NEW Book New Paperback Get other William Gibson Books click here It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial ... - Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1 « BIG OTHER
... first emerging at roughly the same time in works like The Anubis Gates (1983) by Tim Powers and Homunculus (1986) by James Blaylock and overlapping in The Difference Engine (1990) by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. ... - Genuine Apocrypha: Hellnotes
What I'm reading. Talking About Detective Fiction, PD Jams; Glitz by Elmore Leonard; The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Labels. Anthologies (2); books (12); GOB (2); novels (4); Short Stories (8); STG (10) ... - The Difference Engine (Spectra special editions)
The Difference Engine (Spectra special editions): : A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward ... - How Steampunk Took Over the World
... had been popularized in the previous few years by William Gibson and others. Ironically, it would be Gibson himself, who, co-writing with Bruce Sterling, would write Steampunk's first break-out hit, 1990's The Difference Engine. ...
