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The Difference Engine

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1855 - The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a …

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1855 - The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future; Sybil Gerard - fallen woman, politicians tart, daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward 'Leviathan' Mallory - explorer and paleontologist. Laurence Oliphant - diplomat, mystic, and spy. Their adve

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"1855 - The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead …"

— Margaret

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