The Difference Engine: one man, many lives, same difference

By Mark J. Suddaby

Imagine modern day England under Soviet rule; Caliphate rule; Nazi Rule; Roman rule
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In 1961, the first manned Soviet space flight successfully orbits the Earth. In 1191, Christian crusaders defeat Saladin but turn back before Jerusalem. In 1939, the F hrer gives his beer hall speech before planning the invasion of Europe. In 61, the Iceni lose a great battle to rid their lands of its Romani invaders.

Except that none of these events ever took place.

I am Gillan Pots: farmhand in Soviet Britain; fighter in the English Emirate; official of the British Reich; plebeian in Imperial Brittania. I have lucid dreams of a different world, one that is more real to me than these substitute lives, and all I want is for the echoes through time to stop picking at my addled brain. But the engine of the universe is not so forgiving: it has other plans for me as it keeps re-gearing the world, and all so that I can be the difference.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1918584192
• ISBN13: 9781918584196
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Firetree Fiction
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"