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Machine of differences

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A masterpiece of alternative history, a cornerstone of the steampunk ("steam punk") subculture, the only example of full-fledged co-creation between two genre revolutionaries, who are too narrowly confined to any genre. "The Difference Machine" is a large-scale, polyphonic panorama of a world in which, simultaneously with the industrial revolution, the information revolution took place, so that the computer appeared a century earlier than it should. A world in which Charles Babbage built his difference machine and the aristocracy was overrun by radical lords led by Byron. A world in which paleontological catastrophists fiercely argue with the Uniformists, the commune led by Karl Marx took power in New York, computing power is measured by the total length of the meshing of copper gears, London is threatened with ecological disaster, and rebel Luddites provide conspiracy theorists with rich food for thought....
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