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The Difference Engine unit is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain where great technical and cultural change has took place after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to create a mechanised computer called Machines. The fierce summer season heat and air pollution have powered the ruling class out of London and the producing anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to struggle the intellectual elite. A set of perforated punch cards enter into the hands of the little girl of an carried out Luddite head who models out to keep them safe and find out what secrets they contain.
