Description
| Product ID: | 9780575099401 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Title: | The Difference Engine |
| Authors: | Author: Bruce Sterling, William Gibson |
| Page Count: | 400 |
| Subjects: | Science fiction, Science fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating '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 ... |
| Imprint Name: | Gateway |
| Publisher Name: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-01-13 |