Such nuggets are hard to find amid the amplified, rock-'n-roll prose.Ĭopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. 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. In both cases, it is a pose, a baroque nostalgia for Hemingway and film noir it only plays at nihilism, terror and despair. The story, though, is buried under an elaborate techno-punk style of the sort William Gibson popularized in Neuromancer.
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. 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. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īfter his thoughtful, elegant novel Knight Moves, Williams wrenchingly shifts gears for this heavy-metal adventure.
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Together, Cowboy and Sarah embark on a high-octane odyssey across the shattered face of the American west.įrom Walter Jon Williams comes Hardwired, the hard-hitting, seminal classic that feels as prescient today as when it was first published. 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. 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.īut there are heroes those who would stand against the Orbital powers and keep freedom's cause alive. Ears ago, the last desperate hopes of Earth were crushed as corporate Orbital blocs ruling from on high devastated the planet's face.
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