Hardwired, Walter Jon Williams
Hardwired, Walter Jon Williams
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Hardwired

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 12 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Exfighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gunforhire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is the author of thirty volumes of fiction, in addition to works in film, television, comics, and the gaming field. Williams has appeared on the bestseller lists of the Times and the New York Times. He is a world traveler, scuba diver, and a black belt in Kenpo Karate. He has twice been awarded the Nebula Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

I don't know why I never got around to reading this back when I used to see it all the time in the bookstores, even knowing that I was such a cyberpunk fan and the whole field was blowing up left and right. Maybe it was all the hardware and the focus on guns and metal that turned me off. I didn't re......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

Very cool, hard edged cyberpunk/dystopic world building. Well written, at times poetic, yet the adrenaline fueled plot is overly dense with scores of factions, shifting loyalties and betrayals to the point of confusion.......more

Goodreads review by Scott

I have a deep personal weakness for 80s cyberpunk, and though I waited many years to finally read this one, it delivers all the chrome and lasers and screaming cybernetic air battles and corporate skullduggery my teenage self could have ever desired. A gritty froth of all that was best and brightest......more

Goodreads review by Manny

You know the bit in Species where Natasha Henstridge sticks her tongue down Anthony Guidera's throat and out through the back of his head? It won the 1996 MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, admittedly against a fairly weak field - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was a nominee. But all the same. Anyway, wh......more