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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 ...
The Sprawl trilogy was followed by the 1990 novel The Difference Engine, an alternative history novel Gibson wrote in collaboration with Bruce Sterling. Set in a technologically advanced Victorian era Britain, the novel was a departure from the authors' cyberpunk roots.
The works of William Gibson encompass literature, journalism, acting, recitation, and performance art. Primarily renowned as a novelist and short fiction writer in the cyberpunk milieu, Gibson invented the metaphor of cyberspace in "Burning Chrome" (1982) and emerged from obscurity in 1984 with the publication of his debut novel Neuromancer.
The Difference Engine: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine takes on the roles of modern computers a century earlier. The World Next Door: Brad Ferguson: People from a world that experienced a nuclear war in 1962 interact with people from a world that did not. A World of Difference: Harry Turtledove
Portrait of Gibson in Paris on the occasion of his 60th birthday, March 17, 2008. William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. [1] Since first being published in the late 1970s, Gibson has written more than twenty short stories and nine critically acclaimed ...
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The Difference Engine: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: 13 January 2011 978-0-575-09940-1: The Prestige: Christopher Priest 10 February 2011 978-0-575-09941-8: Greybeard: Brian Aldiss 18 March 2011 978-0-575-07113-1: Martian Time-Slip ‡ Philip K. Dick: 24 March 2011 978-1-85798-837-6: Sirius: Olaf Stapledon: 14 April 2011 978-0-575-09942-5 ...
The trilogy was commercially and critically successful. Steven Poole, writing in The Guardian, described "Neuromancer and the two novels which followed, Count Zero (1986) and the gorgeously titled Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)" as making up "a fertile holy trinity, a sort of Chrome Koran (the name of one of Gibson's future rock bands) of ideas inviting endless reworkings".