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Will Lovelace and Babbage Save the Economy?

A fictional tale starring the inventors of the first computer.

  • By Sydney Padua
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Sydney Padua is an animator and cartoonist based in London. Her work has appeared in films such as The Iron Giant, Clash of the Titans, and John Carter. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is her first book. 

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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua. Copyright © 2015 by Sidney Padua. Published by arrangement with Pantheon Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 

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