In the Country of the Blind

Paperback, 527 pages

English language

Published July 1990 by Baen.

ISBN:
978-0-671-69886-7
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OCLC Number:
22102227
ISFDB ID:
872329

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What if it were all a plot? What if there really were a secret conspiracy running things behind the scenes…and they were incompetent?

It is a little known fact that over a hundred years ago an English scientist-mathematician named Charles Babbage invented a mechanical computer that was nearly as powerful as the "electronic brains" of the 1950s. The history books would have it that it was unworkable, an interesting dead-end.

The history books lie. In reality, the Babbage Machine was a success whose existence was hidden from view by a society dedicated to the development of a "secret science" that could guide the human race away from war and toward a better destiny.

But as the decades passed their goals were perverted—and now they apply their knowledge to install themselves as the secret rulers of the world. Can they do it? Even though their methods are imperfect, unless they are …

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