![]() ![]() " Excellent Cyberpunkt, fast paced action, won't let you sit idle while reading. " This is a cutting edge novel with a fabulous ending and a hard core story " - Jason, " I always end up coming back to this book when I fall into a Gibson mood. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.If you like dark foreboding rollercoaster scifi novels that is." It's apparently considered to be one of the three 'founding' cyberpunk novels, along with William Gibson's Neuromancer and Bruce Sterling's 'The Artificial Kid'. ![]() The writing is fast-paced, the tone is dark and the story is gripping. ![]() "A fun read, a science fiction 'heavy metal' novel, set in a futuristic postwar america where the huge orbiting corporations rule, and man is literally 'hardwired' to his technology. This action-packed adventure is a must-read for science fiction fans everywhere. Together, they gather an unlikely gang of misfits for a ride that will take them to the edge of the atmosphere. He teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals. Cowboy, an ex–fighter pilot who has become “hardwired” via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, is now a panzerboy, a hi-tech smuggler riding armored hovertanks through the balkanized countryside. ![]() In Walter Jon Williams’ classic cyberpunk novel, the remnants of a war-ravaged America endure in scattered, heavily armed colonies, while the wealthy Orbital Corporations now control the world. ![]()
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