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The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three extraordinary characters, Sybil Gerard, Edward Mallory, and Laurence Oliphant, race toward history and the future. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...
First publish date: 1991
Genre: Science Fiction/Cyberpunk
Authors: William Gibson
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