# The Difference Engine

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- Book: [The Difference Engine](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-gibson/the-difference-engine) ([The Difference Engine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-gibson/the-difference-engine.md))
- Authors: [William Gibson](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-gibson), [Bruce Sterling](https://www.bookquiver.com/bruce-sterling)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-05-7509-940-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2011-01-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 ...