Steampunk

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• The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
  (199?, novel, science fiction... sequel to H.G.Wells' The Time Machine ... Winner of the 1996 Philip K.Dick Award, and the John W.Campbell Memorial Award... website: The Stephen Baxter Fan Page)

• Homunculus by James P.Blaylock
  (1986, novel, steampunk... victorian england)

• Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P.Blaylock
  (1991, novel, steampunk?...HarperCollins, US, hbk... time machine)

• The Jules Verne Steam Balloon by Guy Davenport
  (19??, novel, slipstream)

• The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul Di Filippo
  (April 1995, novella, short stories, steampunk)

• In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn
  (July 1990, novel, science fiction, steampunk, conspiracy... analytical engine actually built and used by a secret society)

• The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
  (1990, novel, science fiction, hardcore steampunk, alternate history... Charles Babbage / Ada Lovelace, analytical engine)

• Morlock Night by K.W.Jeter
  (1979, novel, science fiction, steampunk... sequel to H.G.Wells' The Time Machine ... the original 'steampunk' novel)

• Infernal Devices by K.W.Jeter
  (1987, novel, science fiction, hardcore steampunk)

• Pasquale's Angel by Paul J.McAuley
  (1994, novel, science fiction, steampunk)

• The Time Machine by H.G.Wells
  (1895, novel, science fiction, dystopia... available online)

• "The Temptation of Dr Stein" by Paul J.McAuley
  (short story, first published in the anthology The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein edited by Stephen Jones, Robinson Publishing, 1994... reissued in the collection The Invisible Country by Paul J.McAuley, September 1996... takes place in the same alternate past as the novel Pasquale's Angel by Paul J.McAuley)

• Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers by Betty Alexandra Toole
  (1992, non-fiction...Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California, US... annotated collection of Ada Lovelace's letters... daughter of Lord Byron, she's also been called 'The Queen of Engines'... Lady Ada provided the mathematics for Charles Babbage's analytical engine)

• Hudson Hawk
  (feature film... starring: Bruce Willis)

• The Time Machine
  (1960, feature film... starring: Rod Taylor... based on the H.G.Wells novel)

• Time after Time
  (1979, feature film... directed by Nicholas Meyer... starring: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner... H.G.Wells invents a time machine, travels to 1979 San Francisco on the trail of Jack the Ripper)

"Babbage's Intelligence: Calculating Engines and the Factory System" by Simon Schaffer
(an online paper on Babbage's work)

Doctor Gunn's Patented History Restorer
(originally published in SF Eye , Issue 8, Winter 1991... refers to The Difference Engine ...
"Eileen Gunn's web site, which includes the complete text of her 'Difference Dictionary', a.k.a. 'Doctor Gunn's Patented History Restorer'."--John D. Berry.)

Two Readings from The Difference Engine
(contains two excerpts from The Difference Engine : "Lady Ada's Speech on the Modus Program" and "The Grindwell Necropolis"... plus an excerpt from "The Gernsback Continuum")

Steampunk
(steampunk entry at alt.culture website... features the book cover for The Steampunk Trilogy )

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