The Difference Engine
Douban
ISBN: 9780575099401
author:
William Gibson
/
Bruce Sterling
publishing house: Gollancz
publication date: 2011
-1
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 8.99
number of pages: 400
William Gibson / Bruce Sterling
overview
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 ...