The Difference Engine
The Difference Engine
English | 24 June 2021 | ASIN: B096Y73L4Y | M4B@125 kbps | 16h 1m | 774.22 MB
Author: Bruce Sterling, William Gibson
Narrator: Andrew Cullum
1855: the Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his analytical engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with the future: Sybil Gerard – fallen woman, politician’s tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward Leviathan Mallory – explorer and palaeontologist; Laurence Oliphant – diplomat, mystic and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for.
Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine took the science-fiction community by storm when it was first published. 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 called engines.
Provocative, compelling and intensely imagined, this audiobook is poised to impress a whole new generation.
