Difference Engine
Title | Difference Engine |
Year for Search | 1990 |
Authors | Gibson, William [Ford](b. 1948), and Sterling, [Michael] Bruce(b. 1954) |
Tertiary Authors | Sterling, Bruce |
Pagination | 383 pp. |
Date Published | 1990 |
Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
Place Published | London |
ISBN Number | 9780575047624 |
Keywords | Canadian author, Male author, US author |
Annotation | 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. |
Additional Publishers | U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011. |
Info Notes | The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune). |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Gibson was born in the U.S. and moved to Canada in 1967. Sterling lives in the U. S. |
Full Text | 1990 Gibson, William [Ford] (b. 1948) and Bruce Sterling (b. 1954). The Difference Engine. London: Gollancz. PSt 383 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011. PSt 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). Gibson was born in the U.S. and moved to Canada in 1967. Sterling lives in the U. S. |