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The Difference Engine is a 1990 Steampunk novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

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  • The Difference Engine is a 1990 Steampunk novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
  • The Difference Engine is an Alternate History novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the Steampunk sub-genre. It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine).
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  • The Difference Engine is a 1990 Steampunk novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
  • The Difference Engine is an Alternate History novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the Steampunk sub-genre. It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually his analytical engine rather than the difference engine). The story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an executed Luddite leader (she is borrowed from Benjamin Disraeli's novel Sybil); Edward "Leviathan" Mallory, a paleontologist and explorer; and Laurence Oliphant, a historical figure with a real career, as portrayed in the book, as a travel writer whose work was a cover for espionage activities "undertaken in the service of Her Majesty". Linking all their stories is the trail of a mysterious set of reportedly very powerful computer punch cards and the individuals fighting to obtain them; as is the case with special objects in several novels by Gibson, the punch cards are to some extent a MacGuffin.
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