Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

ears ago, the last desperate hopes of Earth were crushed as corporate Orbital blocs ruling from on high devastated the planet's face. Today, the autocratic Orbitals indulge in decadent luxury far above the mudboys, dirtgirls, zonedancers, and buttonheads who live out violent lives of electronic distraction and dependence amid the flooded, ruined cities and teeming slums of a balkanized America.But there are heroes; those who would stand against the Orbital powers and keep freedom's cause alive. Two such heroes are the metal-eyed ex-fighter pilot turned panzer-driver Cowboy, and Sarah, the cybernetic assassin desperate to find a better life for her drug-addicted brother. Together, Cowboy and Sarah embark on a high-octane odyssey across the shattered face of the American west.From Walter Jon Williams comes Hardwired, the hard-hitting, seminal classic that feels as prescient today as when it was first published. Like a steel-guitar fueled Damnation Alley, as directed by Sam Peckinpah, Hardwired demonstrates how Williams's singular vision helped defined the cyberpunk genre. Enter Series Index : 01 of 02 ES Group : Serified_AnE All Identifiers : ff:w/walter-jon-williams/hardwired, goodreads:304761, google:3bArAAAACAAJ, isbn:9781597800624 Test Search : Hardwired / Walter Jon Williams Test Compare Series to Entered: eq Formats : EPUB, ZAB Calc ESI Combined : 01 of 190 Quick Search : Walter Jon Williams Hardwired ABook : Have Has Cover : Yes Test Text Series Index: 1 Single Author : Walter Jon Williams Raw Title : Hardwired Calc ESI Part 2 : of Sorted Author by LN, FN: Williams, Walter Jon EBook : Have Calc Series Group : Hardwired Title Length : 9 Title Parm A : Hardwired ES Cover Quality : ICBF Record ID : 399 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_AnE.Hardwired.Scifan.01 of 02..ICBF ES Name : Hardwired Uncomma Author : Walter Jon Williams Number of Words in Auth: 3 ES Genre : Scifan Calc New Series : Hardwired.... Calc ESI Part 3 : 02 Compare Author : eq Calc ESI Part 1 : 01 Num of Aut : 1

ex-fighter Pilot Cowboy, Hardwired Via Skull Sockets Directly To His Lethal Electronic Hardware, Teams Up With Sarah, An Equally Cyborized Gun-for-hire, To Make A Last Stab At Independence From The Rapacious Orbitals.

publishers Weekly

after His Thoughtful, Elegant Novel Knight Moves, Williams Wrenchingly Shifts Gears For This Heavy-metal Adventure. It Is Set With Acknowledgement In Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley, When Corporate Orbitals Control What's Left Of A Postwar America, Now Balkanized And Armed To The Teeth. Ex-fighter Pilot Cowboy, ``hardwired'' Via Skull Sockets Directly To His Lethal Electronic Hardware, Teams Up With Sarah, An Equally Cyborized Gun-for-hire, To Make A Last Stab At Independence From The Rapacious Orbitals. The Story, Though, Is Buried Under An Elaborate Techno-punk Style Of The Sort William Gibson Popularized In Neuromancer. In Both Cases, It Is A Pose, A Baroque Nostalgia For Hemingway And Film Noir; It Only Plays At Nihilism, Terror And Despair. The Best Effect Is Williams's Future Version Of A Brain-scrambled Vet: A Dead Buddy Of Cowboy's Whose Scattered Bits And Pieces Of Computer Memory Now Constitute A Ragged Semblance Of A Man. Such Nuggets Are Hard To Find Amid The Amplified, Rock-'n-roll Prose. (june 16)

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 guerilla 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.” Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gibson's Neuromancer . According to Locus , Hardwired is Walter Jon Williams's "best book to date". Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.