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The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
320 pages
A playful, visually inventive graphic novel that reimagines the dawn of computing with wit and historical curiosity.
What it feels like
This briskly paced graphic novel offers a playful and inventive reading experience, blending real historical curiosity with amusing science-fiction elements. Driven chiefly by illustrations, the narrative feels energetic and whimsical, leaning into a witty, pseudo-Victorian tone complete with scientifick diagrams and curious anecdotes. It is an imaginative space where the history of early computers and calculators is transformed into a thrilling, mostly-true adventure. The mood is consistently bright and inquisitive, celebrating technological innovation through a highly visual medium. Readers who delight in historical fiction that does not take itself too seriously, yet still offers instructive and fascinating glimpses into the lives of celebrated scientific figures, will find themselves completely charmed by this unique blend of fact and imaginative flair.
- Mood
- inventive
- whimsical
- energetic
- Tone
- playful
- witty
- informative
- amusing
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- technological innovation · historical reimagining · scientific curiosity
- The writing
- Visually driven and embellished with witty, pseudo-Victorian phrasing and scientific diagrams.
- The arc
- Moves from curious historical exploration into a playful, imaginative celebration of scientific possibility.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love graphic novels that blend real history with playful, science-fiction reimaginings.
About the book
315 pages: chiefly illustrations; 27 cm1130L Lexile
"With interesting & curious anecdotes of celebrated and distinguished characters fully illustrating a variety of instructive and amusing scenes; as performed within and without the remarkable difference engine. Embellished with portraits and scientifick diagrams."
"The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Dust jacket.
Description from Open Library.
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