explorer / books · 1992
The Difference Engine
William Gibson & Bruce Sterling’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 1990 by Gollancz · 429 pages
Nebula · 1992
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This book is recorded on the Nebula ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
Synopsis
In an alternate Victorian England where Charles Babbage perfected his mechanical computer, the Information Age arrives a century early, transforming British society into an industrial technocracy. Three intertwined narratives follow a paleontologist, a diplomat, and a female adventurer through a London of steam-driven calculation engines, political intrigue, and ecological catastrophe.
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