{"id":1553,"date":"2015-04-03T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogeymedia.us\/miniaturewargaming\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2015-04-03T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:11:09","slug":"wargaming-in-the-world-of-the-difference-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/blog\/wargaming-in-the-world-of-the-difference-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wargaming In The World Of The Difference Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Clay has written a fine article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifelix.co.uk\/art22.html\" title=\"wargaming in the world of the Difference Engine\">wargaming in the world of the Difference Engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know,  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&#038;path=ASIN\/055329461X&#038;tag=castlevonretzer&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Difference Engine<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=castlevonretzer&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=055329461X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is a novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling that takes the reader to a Victorian world in which Charles Babbage&#8217;s Difference Engine drives cybernetic steam engines. While I did not enjoy it as much as Gibson&#8217;s Neuromancer, it still was a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Clay has written a fine article on wargaming in the world of the Difference Engine. For those who don&#8217;t know, The Difference Engine is a novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling that takes the reader to a Victorian world in which Charles Babbage&#8217;s Difference Engine drives cybernetic steam engines. While I did not &#8230; <a title=\"Wargaming In The World Of The Difference Engine\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/blog\/wargaming-in-the-world-of-the-difference-engine\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wargaming In The World Of The Difference Engine\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,526],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-steampunk","tag-the-difference-engine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6fOr8-p3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miniaturewargaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}