@booklet {11359, title = {Difference Engine}, year = {1990}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

}, month = {1990}, pages = {383 pp.}, publisher = {Victor Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780575047624}, author = {William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) and [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} }