Spectra Special Editions: The Difference Engine (Paperback)

from elenchus

Gibson & Sterling's The Difference Engine was about as I remembered it. Not the details: these I almost always forget, and here the authors truly shone in their inventiveness and world-making. Fact...

from Smiler69

I wish I could say what I think about this novel, but in order to do that, I'd have to know what it was about, and I honestly have no idea. It's set in an alternate past in the 19th century, there ...

from geneticblend

The Difference Engine is a poster-child of Steampunk, and Steampunk is a visually rich sub-genre. Anime and film capture, for example, the armored, steam-powered vehicles with their puffing and chu...

from lkernagh

Hum... I guess it is a good thing that I was already a fan of steampunk as a genre before reading this one, because if not, this would have turned me off the genre. Don't get me wrong, the authors ...

from Cecilturtle

To say that I was disappointed is to put it mildly. I'm not a big fan of science fiction, but I knew that Gibson is heralded as one of the best: I thought this book might be a good introduction. Wh...