The Difference Engine

'A visionary steam-powered heavy metal fantasy. Gibson and Sterling create a high-Victorian virtual reality of extraordinary richness and detail' Ridley Scott, creator of ALIEN 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 ...

• | Author: Bruce Sterling, William Gibson
• | Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• | Publication Date: Jan 13, 2011
• | Number of Pages:
• | Language:
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780575099401
• | ISBN-10: 0575099402