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Violence
Some
Victorian violence; political conflict
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Sexual content; Victorian-era prostitution referenced
Substance Use
Barely any
Opium; Victorian substance culture
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of information power, Victorian class, and the alternative industrial revolution
What this book is about
Gibson and Sterling's 1990 steampunk alternate history imagines a 19th-century Britain transformed by Babbage's working analytical engine — effectively a Victorian computer revolution. Features Victorian violence, some sexual content. For older teens and adults.
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