The Difference Engine

✍ William Gibson & Bruce Sterling 📂 Fiction 📅 1990 🏛 ePubLibre 🌐 English ⚖ 466 KB

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 dreamnought

The Difference Engine

✍ Gibson, William; Sterling, Bruce 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 735 KB

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 futu

The Difference Engine

✍ William & Sterling Gibson; William & Sterling Gibson 📂 Fiction 🏛 Random House Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 398 KB

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 fut

The Difference Engine

✍ William & Sterling Gibson; William & Sterling Gibson 📂 Fiction 🏛 Random House Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 398 KB

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 fut

The Difference Engine

✍ Gibson, William; Sterling, Bruce 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🌐 English ⚖ 271 KB

### Amazon.com Review 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 but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, p

The Difference Engine

✍ Gibson, William; Sterling, Bruce 📂 Fiction 📅 1991 🏛 Bantam Books 🌐 English ⚖ 272 KB

SUMMARY: A brilliantly inventive alternate history by the two biggest names in Cyberpunk, Gibson and Sterling, about a 19th century computer revolution arising from the invention of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine--a forerunner of today's computer based on mechanical principles rather than elect