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The Difference Engine

โœ Scribed by Gibson, William; Sterling, Bruce

Book ID
107758001
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
735 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307801272

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โœฆ Synopsis

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... ฯก์ฏฆ๋ž 

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