Review of The Difference Engine

July 17th, 2026 (updated July 19th, 2026) computing 60 fiction 8 history 15 steampunk 1

William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

A 3/5 means: Solid. Above the bar. Good parts greatly outweigh any shortcomings. I'm glad to have read it once.

Enjoyable, but I felt the plot wasn't fully-formed, and I didn't like that things just petered out into epistolary epilogue fragments at the end.