Difference Engine

TitleDifference Engine
Year for Search1990
AuthorsGibson, William [Ford](b. 1948), and Sterling, [Michael] Bruce(b. 1954)
Tertiary AuthorsSterling, Bruce
Pagination383 pp.
Date Published1990
PublisherVictor Gollancz
Place PublishedLondon
ISBN Number9780575047624
KeywordsCanadian 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

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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.