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    <body><![CDATA[Hands down, my favorite Gibson. In collaboration with Bruce Sterling, Gibson creates a world that is both familiar and different. The characters are probably the weakest aspect of the book: you never fully get to know most of them, and what you do know is oftentimes clouded by the mysterious cloud that Gibson and Sterling choose to surround them in.<br/><br/>A full analysis and review of this book can be found on Wikipedia at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine," title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine,">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Differe...</a> and is a better review than I could ever write.]]></body>
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