Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Padua) - Book Reviews

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Much of this material is interesting, but it reads as a more or less unedited jumble. The impression it gives is that Padua was captivated by her research and couldn’t bear to leave much out, however peripheral to the main story line. Eventually a reader must give up trying to follow a narrative and read The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage primarily as a miscellany of historical curiosities.
Lauren Redniss - New York Times Book Review


Informative and entertaining... It’s a book that makes you a lot smarter as it makes you laugh.
Nancy Szokan - Washington Post


Reading The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is like auditing a dozen high-level, inventively taught college classes simultaneously: more than a little overwhelming yet fascinating.
Margaret Quamme - Columbus Dispatch
 

Sydney Padua’s new book is definitely "Yowza!" material.
Etelka Lehoczky - NPR

 
An outlandish, enlightening tale.
Discover Magazine
 

(Starred review.) [A] must-have for anyone who enjoys getting lost in a story as brilliant in execution as conception. Padua debut graphic novel transforms the collaboration between Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron) and Charles Babbage (a noted polymath) into an inspired, “What If?” story.... [A] spirit of genuine inventiveness.
Publishers Weekly


Originally a webcomic, this collection of jests interweaves history, literature, and fantasy into short stories starring Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Babbage's machines, and a number of 19th-century luminaries.... Padua's extravaganza is very much for the whimsical intelligentsia.... —Martha Cornig
Library Journal


Sydney Padua’s impeccably researched, yet playfully imagined graphic biography is a treat for history buffs and graphic novel lovers alike…With fantastically detailed art, footnotes and diagrams…, this is a whimsical graphic account like no other.
BookPage


(Starred review.) [A]udaciously imagined.... [W]ritten and illustrated by an artist and computer animator, [it] begins with a sliver of fact—the brief, apparently unproductive "intellectual partnership" between Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage.... A prodigious feat of historically based fantasy that engages on a number of levels.
Kirkus Reviews