The Difference Engine

Author: William Gibson
ISBN: 9780575099401
Publisher: Orion
Year first published: 01 Mar 2011
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback

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 dreadnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot...