Re: [Marxism] Fantasy and SF for socialists.,

[nada <dwaltersMIA@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Difference Engine was also co-authored by William Gibson, the 
inventor of the cyber-punk genre of sci-fi (Nuronmancer, etc).

The "House of Lords" was based in "meritocracy", in this alternate 
Earth. Thus you had a "Mary, Princess of Mathematics" and status was 
based on adherence to science, not blood. The alt-history is based 
largely on the idea that Charles Babbage's computer design, in the 
1820s, actually worked, and powered by steam engines that drove these 
'difference engines' based on punch cards with vast amounts of 
information on them. Control of these engines meant control of society. 
Amazingly creative concept.

David

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