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The Difference Engine

✍ Scribed by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling

Book ID
100344735
Publisher
ePubLibre
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
466 KB
Category
Fiction

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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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