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I would recommend a quick glance at the wikipedia article about this book before you begin it. There is a great summary there of where and how the alternate telling diverges from real events. I didn’t do this before I started reading, and I spent a lot of the book wondering about fact and fiction. About the Book In short, it tells the tale of the trajectory of the world if the computer age came in the 1800’s. The political structures all over the world are deeply effected by Charles Babbage’s completion of his mechanical computers (called Analytical Engines) in 1824. There are numerous references to a fragmented United States (including a communist Manhattan) as well as historical figures such […]
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