Hardwired (novel)
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| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Night Shade Books |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 978-1-59780-062-4 |
| OCLC | 77500827 |
Hardwired is a 1986 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams.
Plot introduction
The Orbital Corporations now control the world. In the ruins of an America ravaged by the Rock War, ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, who can be "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his ride, has become a panzerboy, a hi-tech smuggler riding armored hovertanks through the balkanized countryside.
He teams up with Sarah, another tough-as-nails gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals. They gather an unlikely gang of misfits for a ride that will take them to the edge of the atmosphere.
Series
HardWired is part of a series which includes:
- Hardwired (1986)
- Solip:System (1989)
- Voice of the Whirlwind (1987)
In other media
R. Talsorian Games, with Williams' assistance, published a sourcebook for Hardwired for their Cyberpunk role-playing game, which further expanded many of the concepts and the world setting of the novel. Williams had a previous relationship with creator Mike Pondsmith and R. Talsorian Games, playtesting the original Cyberpunk game system.