by Sydney Padua
What a fabulous book! A mixture of comic strip silliness, delightful anecdote and thorough research (aided by the spiritual successors to Babbage's never realised Analytical Engine) that provides the perfect introduction to the designer of the world's first computer and the author of the world's f...
So, on the one hand you have accurate historical background on Babbage and Lovelace and the work they did together.And then there are the fantastical steampunk adventures they might have had if only they'd gotten around to making the first computer. The adventures are as heavily footnoted as the rea...
Most excellent, even if I did start to lose my attention when the actual mechanics of the Difference or Analytical Engine started, I'm a true user, no real interest in how it works, I care about the output. It's both biography and fiction and makes me wonder what would have happened if someone had ...
An incredibly fun, thoroughly researched graphic novel about the pocket universe adventures of Charles Babbage and Ada Byron Lovelace. Katy was the one who mentioned this and I’m so glad she did; I enjoyed it so much. Even the footnotes are fun!
I’m not entirely sure if the sheer amount of exclamation points on the cover has clued you in, but this book is quite exciting. Just visually, the illustrations are wonderful and give an immediate likeability to the characters that Padua creates out of Lovelace and Babbage.If you’re not in the know,...
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