The Difference Engine -- William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

Condition : Good.
Victor Gollancz, 1992, Paperback - Science Fiction - 383pp. ISBN 9780575052970.
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 historyand the future:
Sybil Gerarda fallen woman, politicians tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator
Edward Leviathan Malloryexplorer and paleontologist
Laurence Oliphantdiplomat, 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 Gibsons and Sterlings unique visionsand the beginning of the movement we know today as steampunk!

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