The Difference Engine | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 06/07/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine


00:00:42 1 Setting
00:05:34 2 Plot summary
00:08:09 3 Characters
00:08:39 4 Literary criticism and significance
00:09:26 5 Influence



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The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk.
It posits a Victorian era Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer (actually his Analytical Engine rather than the difference engine).
The novel was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 1990, the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1991, and both the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Prix Aurora Award in 1992.