26th September 2011, 5:10 PM
The opening doesn't spoil any of the plot twists if that's your concern, though it does do a little foreshadowing with a small bit of dialog.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)