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Title: Count Me Among the Disappointed
Review: How could you go wrong with a plot based on the What If of Charles Babbage's difference engine actually being built, working, and changing the course of human innovation by bringing about the computer age as a realized steampunk past? How could you go wrong with a team of the most talented cyberpunk writers, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling?Well, it went wrong. I forced myself through it, I had to get to the end regardless how many other things I'd rather be doing at the time. The characters didn't engage my interest for the most part and in the rare case that one did get into a bit of interesting tiff, the authors shortchanged me by going away to a different and less interesting storyline. There were so many starts and stops that I just lost track of who was doing what, where, and why should I care.It could have been so much more, but it wasn't.- CV Rick
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