Skip to Content
Advertisement
Arts

Will Lovelace and Babbage Save the Economy?

A fictional tale starring the inventors of the first computer.

Padua_HERO_02

Featured Video

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. 

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 

Advertisement

Stay in touch

Sign up for our free newsletter

More from Arts

Explore Arts

A Poet of Science Who Shook Faith in God

Biographer Richard Holmes reveals how Tennyson predated Darwin and speaks to us today

April 3, 2026

AI Art Is Human Art

An interview with a cognitive scientist about creativity and pleasure

April 3, 2026

How Science Fiction Can Save Us

Three scientists share their bold vision for turning stories into testable experiments

Money Can’t Buy You Youth

An off-Broadway drama shows what happens when billionaires take center stage in science

March 13, 2026

The Books That Blew These Scientists’ Minds

12 leading researchers tell us about the book that opened a new world for them

February 13, 2026

I Turn Scientific Renderings of Space into Art

Illustrator Luís Calçada walks a fine line between scientific truth and imagination

January 15, 2026