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Hardwired Paperback – 14 April 1988

by Walter Jon Williams (Author)

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Publisher : Orbit; New edition (14 April 1988)
Language : English
Paperback : 343 pages
ISBN-10 : 0708837158
ISBN-13 : 978-0708837153

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A must for cyberpunk fans

Reviewed in Australia on 28 June 2016

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I hadn’t heard of Walter Jon Williams before reading this excellent cyberpunk book but will read more of his work, which compares well to William Gibson at his best. Like all good cyberpunk books it throws you in the deep end at the start, with references to panzerboys and dirtgirls, the Rock War and the Weasel whose meaning is not immediately clear, but as the story continues the layers are unpeeled and the well-imagined world of Earth in the not-too-distant future becomes clear. This is a dystopian future which makes the Hunger Games look like a children’s tea party – if you are averse to ‘adult themes’ this is not for you. It moves along at a cracking pace, spitting out novel concepts and future technologies like an out-of-control Catherine Wheel, but in spite of this it’s not a ‘hard-science’ work – you don’t need a B.Sc. in astrophysics to keep up ;-) – and the characters are as well-defined as the background.

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Travis Johnson

Hands down my favourite cyberpunk artifact

Reviewed in Australia on 10 February 2015

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Hands down my favourite cyberpunk artifact. A smart, tough neo-Western that couples a clear and cynical view of human motivation with the heart to grudgingly admit that ,sometimes, we do the right things for the right reasons. I'm honestly baffled that it's never been filmed.

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Rchiz

Impersonal

Reviewed in Australia on 28 February 2015

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Poorly developed characters I could not empathise with at all. Maybe the following books will expand their personalities but do not think I will bother.

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love this story

Reviewed in Australia on 28 July 2018

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amazing novel. almost the perfect cyberpunk story.

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Magdalena Alhassan

5 Stars.

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.

Greycynic

A book for any SF fan's library

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2016

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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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Rich & Nowsh

The origin of cyberpunk

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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M. C. Winstanley

One of the books that defines cyberpunk

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 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...

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M. J. Hutton

Am interesting cyberpunk genre novel

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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