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Hardwired

By: Walter Jon Williams
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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 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.©2006 Night Shade Books (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Cyberpunk

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Critic reviews

"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." (Roger Zelazny)
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This is one of my favourite cyberpunk books, it's a good introduction to the genre, It's quite old and cyber punk has evolved, but it works nicely for hardwired as it's almost like a story of the early days.

Classic Cyberpunk

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This is cyberpunk but it was a bit to hardcore for me, I just couldn't get into it. Just not for me.

Cyberpunk

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This is probaly the best audiobook I've ever heard. It's like it was written specifically as an audiobook, the narrative, the imagery, the flow of the language are all great. I wish I could un-hear it and experience it again.



Story, context and characters are high quality and make sense, in the terms this kind of story can make sense. For me, a clear five star up there with my all-time favorites Altered Carbon, Old Man's War and the Mars trilogy.

Awesome

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Great story, awesome performance. At first I was taken aback by Rudnicki's deep voice, then I loved it. A personal favourite now.

Exceptional

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It's Cyberpunk and this is the best I can say about it.
I did get definite Sprawl/Neuromancer vibes from it but it's far form them.
And compared to Snow Crash it has 0 humor. No fun at all. It tries to be all serious and grim.
Some terms get overused to the point that I had enough of "Crystal" and "shooting Torpedoes".
The world is interesting at first but after a wile it just becomes an expression of how much power and money can twist people.

It's ok but there are far better books to spend your time on.

Just Meh

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