A review by brokensandals
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

4.0

Liberated from the static shell of the material, transliterated to the purely symbological, sublimated into a state entirely new! It can be filed, indexed, converted, replicated, searched, shared, shuffled, linked, remixed, recombined, archived, analyticated... resurrected!

This is less an adventure comic than a celebration of these two people and their milieu. Most of the book is the footnotes, but if you take the time to read them, you’ll be rewarded with numerous fascinating details and anecdotes that Padua dug up in her clearly extensive study of the era. She loves these people, and her enthusiasm is contagious.

Also, the appendix that delves into the design of Babbage’s (real) analytical engine is wonderful.