The Difference Engine
On sale
13th January 2011
Price: £10.99
John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 1992
Genre
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 …