Pantheon Graphic Library The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, (Hardcover)

from Vryce

The book spawned by the webcomic 2dgoggles. It probably qualifies as a comic book, but between the copious footnotes, endnotes, and primary source documents that doesn't seem entirely correct. I actually didn't read this book for a long time after buying it, as I thought it would simply print par...

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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is an absolutely delightful graphic novel that contains a wealth of historical information regarding Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, and the history of computing while at the same time being relentlessly entertaining. The book begins with a brief hi...

from Kaethe

So, on the one hand you have accurate historical background on Babbage and Lovelace and the work they did together.And then there are the fantastical steampunk adventures they might have had if only they'd gotten around to making the first computer. The adventures are as heavily footnoted as the ...

from elenchus

Inspired to purchase off my TBR list after re-reading Gibson's & Sterling's The Difference Engine. Padua, too, thinks the difference engine is a cooler name, though both are concerned actually with Babbage's analytical engine. Padua's is a fabulist take on Gibson's & Sterling's appendix, and is i...

from bostonian71

Whimsical, educational, and yes, even thrilling. Padua's graphic novel eloquently and humorously tells the story of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace -- both the real timeline, in which the brilliant but temperamental inventors never realize their visions, and an imaginary one in which they actual...