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Title: Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams ISBN: 0-312-93303-7 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: June, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best
Comment: While this book, like Neuromancer, is one of the founding books in the cyberpunk movement, the two books could not be more different - except they are the same.
That is, Hardwired is a story set in a future dystopia where people are caught up in events that lead to changes that seem beyond the scope of changes that people like them could make. Of course, there are drugs and other fun stuff, a network of computers that are hacked, and large corporations.
Hardwired is different in that it is a much better action story, with the main characters being a street samurai and a panzer driver. Gives the book a much different focus than Neuromancer with a decker as a main character.
And the world is much more alive. Dirtboys and mudgirls are moving, struggling, alive in glorious MOTION.
It's a book that you can immerse yourself in for the hours it takes to read it, blink, stagger outside, and look around at the world, disappointed, because it's not the right world. Somehow, the world of Hardwired is so compelling that you forget for a while our world.
That's about as high a recommendation as a book can get.
Rating: 4
Summary: Williams does Cyberpunk, and does it very well
Comment: Gibson and Sterling are often considered the masters of 80's cyberpunk fiction, with Stephenson trying to keep it alive in the 90's, but this effort by Williams proves he could master that genre. The fast-paced adventures of his protagonist are only exceeded by the unforgetable panzer-run sequence across the great plains. I found the ending a bit simplistic and predictable, but your taste may vary. Overall I enjoyed the setting, the characters, and the action as much as any cyberpunk I've read. This was the book that made me always look for Williams' latest on the shelves. What more can you say than that
Rating: 2
Summary: Just because it looks like and sounds like...
Comment: ...cyberpunk doesn't mean it is cyberpunk. Walter John Williams uses all the archetypes of cyberpunk fiction - mind-to-machine interface, powerful corporations with money superceding national sovereignty, criminals as the 'good' guys, cybernetics becoming intimate with the human body, and such - but that doesn't make this a cyberpunk novel. Its like painting stripes on a horse and calling it a zebra.
It is a good story, and the characters are compelling, but it is also very clearly written in imitation of a cyberpunk story. Part of this stems from the contrived 'future-tense' narrative style, but that's just the best example of the overall 'contrivedness' of this story. Cyberpunk doesn't have to be about futuristic technology at all (see William Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum" and Greg Bear's "Petra") so long as it carries the cyberpunk sensibility. "Hardwired" doesn't do that. It imitates a cyberpunk story.
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Title: Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter John Williams, Walter Jon Williams ISBN: 0812519248 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams ISBN: 0812514092 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams ISBN: 0061054410 Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ISBN: 0345457684 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville ISBN: 0345459407 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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