![]() ![]() Such nuggets are hard to find amid the amplified, rock-'n-roll prose. 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. Hardwired, the acknowledged inspiration for the games Cyberpunk Red and Cyberpunk 2077, is now available in a deluxe edition for its thirtieth anniversary, with. The story, though, is buried under an elaborate techno-punk style of the sort William Gibson popularized in Neuromancer. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. 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. After his thoughtful, elegant novel Knight Moves, Williams wrenchingly shifts gears for this heavy-metal adventure. ![]()
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