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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Free FREE THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE PDF Sydney Padua | 320 pages | 23 Apr 2015 | Random House USA Inc | 9780307908278 | English | New York, United States Sydney Padua – portfolio and blog This week well, last week marks the three-year anniversary of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. With footnotes! Not to mention, quivering with the need to tell someone! Mine has not been the blank, barren silence of the indolent layabout, but rather the expectant, the pregnant silence of Feverish Labour behind the scenes! As it turns out they are awesome and totally cool with me putting it up here for your enjoyment. As a great deal of it is drawn already expect a sudden sharp shocking increase in the usual pace of things around here. So stand by for that! I would like to thank all you wonderful readers for being so supportive of this odd comic-shaped pocket universe. It has cost me much labour and not a little stress but your kind comments, enthusiasm, and patience have kept me doodling away. Lovelace and Babbage have not only been excellent company themselves, they have been my means of introduction to so many wonderful, fascinating people. So thank you all! A new vision of science. I even went back and read the first third, with new insight. Excellent news, I have blogged about it. Happy Day! I just found your site and love the comic. Congratulations on the publishing! I look forward to The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage with a strange kind of glee. Now I am going to tweet this. Oh, and well deserved, btw. I will be delighted to purchase the book, and I eagerly await the sudden sharp shocking increase. To quote Pres. I am delighted at the good news! So we have to wait for vampire poets. This is your hard work put up here for our entertainment. And I am so glad you decided to share it with us. Complaining would be churlish, indeed! I do look forward to thrusting money at the bookseller when the paper and ink is unveiled before the general public, and I shall look forward to whatever you can post in the meantime. Again, my heartiest felicitations! Thanks for drawing it for us! Another avid reader from Quebec who cannot wait to buy and read the paper version shaving followed along here, and even paid and downloaded the iPad stories. I love your work, and glad The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage see it getting a possibly wider audience in print. The book, not the readership, I kind of like being corporeal. So… are we eventually going to see User Experience here on the website? Yep, User Experience is going to The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage serialised here starting in a couple of weeks. Hellooo from Quebec! Congratulations for everything!! I will happily point to the book and tell my daughter that I got to watch you draw when I was just a bit older than her, when you were forced into babysitting me. Unlike reading about Canadian History, which activity as a homeschooling parent I will soon have to enforce. Congratulations, and thank you for the delightful language that is this announcement post. It made me smile quite The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage bit. Posted in Uncategorized. Anna Martin on February 28, at pm. Robert Heterodyne on August 25, at pm. Geis on July 30, at pm. Joe on May 18, at am. Elizabeth on May 17, at pm. Amanda S on May 13, at pm. Nur on May 6, at pm. Kaazz on May 8, at am. Nur Hussein on June 8, at pm. It worked for me too. Alexandra on May 4, at pm. Elise on May 2, at am. Vryce on May 2, at am. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage- BOOK! – 2D Goggles Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime—for the sake of both London and science. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 8. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbageplease sign up. Would you recommend this book to a 13 year old? Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Apr 20, Nick rated it it was amazing. If you're not familiar with Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua's delight-filled webcomic, rejoice! It has now made the transition to print. Let me just acknowledge right now that I'm not even trying to be objective: Sydney's comic always hit the sweet spot of my sense of how the world ought to be. Her riff on the factually rather grim If you're The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage familiar with Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua's delight-filled webcomic, rejoice! Her riff on the factually rather grim story of Lovelace and Babbage and their not-quite creation of the computer in the s is brain jazz. It's filled with digressions, anachronisms and sketch protrayals of famous Victorians, all riven through with an ebullient goofiness. This is history as I wish it was: bright, caring and full of zing. It's also the modern world through The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Padua prism, with jokes about Twitter and Venn diagrams sprinkled into the dialogue. That said, there's also a truth here, as you can immediately see if you dip into Babbage's own writing: Sydney's portrayal of him as a Dickensian steam-age petrolhead with cranky uncle basenotes is spot on, and Lovelace - whose true historical upbringing was like something from a Warren Ellis comic about the Fascist precursors of the Superman concept - was every bit as quirky. There's something else going on, too, which is worth mentioning: this is a book about the creative process and the creative mind, with its fancies and magpie distractability, its excitements and sloughs of despond. Creativity varies in its output according to any number of personality traits, but the process seems to be remarkably similar across disciplines: great artists, great activists, great poets, and great scientists share a veering perpendicular humour, and it's alive here, in this book. That's why I ran around like a four year old yesterday after Sydney dropped in my copy: because this book is full of life. Get it. View all 4 comments. Jun 27, Mark rated it it was ok. The delightful artwork of this graphic enterprise I don't think it can be called a The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage made it jump off the library shelf and into my check out pile. Unfortunately, reading this work is not near as interesting as browsing through it. It consists of musings on what would have happened if Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace had actually built Babbage's difference engine. Almost every page has footnotes, many of the footnotes have very long endnotes, and occasionally an endnote will have a footnot The delightful artwork of this graphic enterprise I don't think it can be called a novel made it jump off the library shelf and into my check out pile. Almost every page has footnotes, many of the footnotes have very long endnotes, and occasionally an endnote will have a footnote. It's not clear whether the footnotes serve the panels or the panels serve the footnotes. Taken on its own the "graphic novel" part is pretty The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and it's very difficult to get a reading flow going with the constant interruptions. There are some interesting appendices with excerpts from primary sources and a description of how the difference engine was supposed to work. Also, don't expect to get detailed insight into the technical accomplishments of ether Babbage or Lovelace. The author whom I hate to criticize because she seems incredibly likable and talented based on this work seems in over her head when it comes to technical details. Despite my review, the popularity of this book on Goodreads may convince you to ignore me and read it anyway I don't blame you. I see that this title is available on Kindle. Don't even think about it - you need a hard copy. View 2 comments. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage 23, Oriana rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-with-pixjugs-capesread I was pretty stoked about this one going in I wrote an article about Ada on Atlas Obscura for Lovelace Day last yearbut still I was completely blown away. This book is so charming, so monstrously intelligent, and so, so incredibly much fun.
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