Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

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.

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)