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'Napleonic alternate history with a touch of the cthulhian terrors. A young officer, a code breaker, is despatched to a rural retreat in the English countryside, where some strange experiments are taking place which could revolutionise combat communication – taking it far beyond the use of semaphore signalling.'
Source: Best SF (http://bestsf.net/sean-mcmullen-electrica-fantasy-science-fiction-marapr-2012/). (Sighted: 20/6/2014)
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Steampunk note: Similar to Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine, this story concerns the invention of computing technologies in the nineteenth century.
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- 2013 finalist Locus Awards — Novelette
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cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1803-1815
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