The Difference Engine
- ISBN-10
- 055329461X
- ISBN-13
- 9780553294613
- Series
- The Difference Engine
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 429
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Spectra
- Authors
- William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Description
In London of 1855, celebrated paleontologist Edward Mallory gets mixed up with Charles Babbage, the inventor of an advanced calculating machine run by his elite group of clackers
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