The difference engine
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In 1855 London, a steam driven calculator heralds a new age of information as everything from fast food to credit cards turns the Victorian Era into a bizarre modern-day world. "Bursting with the kind of demented speculation and obsessive detailing that has made both Gibson's and Sterling's work stand out in the past".--San Francisco Chronicle.
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055329461
9780345532589
9780307801272
9780553070286
9780345532589
9780307801272
9780553070286
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| full_title | difference engine |
| author | gibson william |
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| lastUpdate | 2018-04-25 23:05:56PM |
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| auth_author2 | Sterling, Bruce. |
| author | Gibson, William, 1948- |
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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!" From the Paperback edition. |
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| owning_library_catalog | Nashville Public Library |
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| publishDate | 1991, 2011 |
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| title_display | The difference engine |
| title_full | The Difference Engine, The difference engine / William Gibson, Bruce Sterling |
| title_short | The difference engine |
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| topic_facet | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller |
