The Difference Engine

«Машина различий» — фантастический роман в жанре стимпанк и альтернативной истории, написанный Брюсом Стерлингом и Уильямом Гибсоном в 1990 году. 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 ...