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Hardwired: 30th Anniversary Edition Kindle Edition
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Walter Jon Williams
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This is a complete novel, not part of a series as stated elsewhere on this page.
Hardwired, the acknowledged inspiration for the games Cyberpunk Red and Cyberpunk 2077, is now available in a deluxe edition for its thirtieth anniversary, with new content by the author.
Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well.
But now, if the criminal underworld and the guerrilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power— in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hackers in the neural interface.
As Roger Zelazny said, "Hardwired is a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars— glittering, nasty, and noble— and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. It has all of my favorite things— blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. I wish I’d written this one.”
The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of this cyberpunk classic includes essays by the author devoted to the origin of the novel, the unexpected source of the term “panzerboy,” and an amused guide through some of the oddities of the first German edition.
“Williams' use of language is as explosive and as techno-tinged as the world he describes. Reading the book is like taking a jet ride across a futuristic America, with acceleration forcing you back in your seat all the way.”
Rockland Courier-Gazette
“Cowboy is no Rambo; he is a thoughtful, intelligent hero. He and Sarah are two of the many good things about HARDWIRED. Another is the world they inhabit--- an incredibly detailed future of personality transfers, bizarre drugs, cybernetic implants, and complex political and economic power maneuvers . . . It is one of the best SF novels I have read in years; I heartily recommend it.”
Fantasy Review
“The story moves with the speed of a hovercraft, the climax has all the action and excitement of Star Wars and the ending has a delightful twist.”
Providence Sunday Journal
“Hardwired is his best book to date...as the parallel plotlines of a hotshot contraband flyer and a sleek bodyguard/assassin develop and gradually intersect, the book takes on a life of its own.”
Locus
Hardwired, the acknowledged inspiration for the games Cyberpunk Red and Cyberpunk 2077, is now available in a deluxe edition for its thirtieth anniversary, with new content by the author.
Earth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well.
But now, if the criminal underworld and the guerrilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power— in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hackers in the neural interface.
As Roger Zelazny said, "Hardwired is a tough, sleek juggernaut of a story, punctuated by strobe light movements, coursing to the wail of jets and the twang of steel guitars— glittering, nasty, and noble— and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. It has all of my favorite things— blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. I wish I’d written this one.”
The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of this cyberpunk classic includes essays by the author devoted to the origin of the novel, the unexpected source of the term “panzerboy,” and an amused guide through some of the oddities of the first German edition.
“Williams' use of language is as explosive and as techno-tinged as the world he describes. Reading the book is like taking a jet ride across a futuristic America, with acceleration forcing you back in your seat all the way.”
Rockland Courier-Gazette
“Cowboy is no Rambo; he is a thoughtful, intelligent hero. He and Sarah are two of the many good things about HARDWIRED. Another is the world they inhabit--- an incredibly detailed future of personality transfers, bizarre drugs, cybernetic implants, and complex political and economic power maneuvers . . . It is one of the best SF novels I have read in years; I heartily recommend it.”
Fantasy Review
“The story moves with the speed of a hovercraft, the climax has all the action and excitement of Star Wars and the ending has a delightful twist.”
Providence Sunday Journal
“Hardwired is his best book to date...as the parallel plotlines of a hotshot contraband flyer and a sleek bodyguard/assassin develop and gradually intersect, the book takes on a life of its own.”
Locus
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date19 Sept. 2011
- File size2477 KB
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Set in the future, this book follows the war between the criminal and resistance underworld and the Orbital Heaven, a war in which men become machines. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Product details
- ASIN : B005O5VR3U
- Publisher : Walter Jon Williams (19 Sept. 2011)
- Language : English
- File size : 2477 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 274 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 85,598 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 332 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction
- 372 in Cyberpunk
- 1,342 in Science Fiction Adventure (Kindle Store)
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2021
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One of the best books I have read in years, impossible to put down and must read for any cyberpunk genre fan. Mr Williams delivers hard hitting, gritty version of cyber future, full of enhancements, control, pain, suffering and betrayl but also immense courage and, dare a say, hope. Attention to detail, language used and way of writing makes you feel like you are there, main characters have flaws and their own demons to battle but you can't help to care for them. And in the end reader is left with realisation that future in this book can and most probably will happen very soon indeed, even as soon as tomorrow.
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I don't know how I had managed to miss this excellent book for so many years. It is possibly because I am not a great fan of cyberpunk. However, even if you too are not a fan of this particular genre this is not a book to miss. Don't hesitate, just throw yourself into the book and enjoy. You may find the story confusing at first but everything comes together by the end. Definitely one of the best books that I have read for sometime.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2020
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Assassinate an old man (whose mind has been transferred to a teenage girl's body) using a robotic snake that comes out of your mouth but also chokes/suffocates you in the process. Awesome.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2012
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William Gibson might have invented all the rules of cyberpunk but Hardwired was the book that took those rules and had the most fun with them. First published in 1986, two years after Neuromancer, Hardwired takes all the cyberpunk architypes, the lawless hacker, the fusion of metal and flesh, the faceless corporations, the electronic frontier of the net, and throws them into a story that spans a fractured, balkanised United States and demonstrates serious action chops. The sequence where Cowboy takes his ground-effect tank on a midnight blockade-running trip across the central states is one amazing sequence in many.
I loved the book back then, I mourned the day I lost my only paperback copy and it's with great joy that I discovered it finally available on Kindle. I like my sci-fi to be about man and his creations, not about space opera or aliens or time travel. If you do too, if you like dark, dystopian visions of a place that sounds like a credible vision of the future, then you've GOT to read this. With trepidation, I'm off to read the long-awaited sequel. It's got a lot to live up to...
I loved the book back then, I mourned the day I lost my only paperback copy and it's with great joy that I discovered it finally available on Kindle. I like my sci-fi to be about man and his creations, not about space opera or aliens or time travel. If you do too, if you like dark, dystopian visions of a place that sounds like a credible vision of the future, then you've GOT to read this. With trepidation, I'm off to read the long-awaited sequel. It's got a lot to live up to...
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2021
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I ordered and re-read this re-release a couple of weeks ago, and have to say that it has not aged well. While some of the ideas still stand up to modern times, the story is a little monotonous. I probably won't read it again.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2017
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To be honest, and possibly sacrilegious, I never really enjoyed the William Gibson books.
This is a great read though.
Fast paced, great characters lots of action. Brilliant.
Okay, maybe not ground breaking like the praxis books, but still intelligent and well thought out.
It's a really great read, enjoy it.
This is a great read though.
Fast paced, great characters lots of action. Brilliant.
Okay, maybe not ground breaking like the praxis books, but still intelligent and well thought out.
It's a really great read, enjoy it.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2019
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Some of the translations from thought, what was actually happening or flashbacks could be confusing at first but then once you get into it the story rattles along at pace with multiple layers of betrayal and trying to just get ahead to survive.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 September 2019
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You get 3 chapters..the ful! Kindle book is peanuts, just get that instead - that said it's an engaging read
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