In his memories, he's an elite commando for an orbital policorp-but because his Alpha never did a brain-scan update, Steward's memories are fifteen years out of date. The Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of this cyberpunk classic includes essays by the author devoted to the origin of the novel, the unexpected source of the term “panzerboy,” and an amused guide through some of the oddities of the first German edition. It has all of my favorite things- blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two. Below the zone of Orbital control, buttonheads, panzerjocks, dirtgirls, and hustlers scramble for their ticket out of the gravity well.īut now, if the criminal underworld and the guerrilla underground can join forces, there is a chance to shift the balance of power- in a war fought on the ground by hardwired commandos, in the air by high-flying deltajocks, and by genius hackers in the neural interface.Īs Roger Zelazny said, " 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- glittering, nasty, and noble- and told in a style perfectly suiting its content. For its thirtieth anniversary, Hardwired is now available in a deluxe new edition, with new content by the author.Įarth lies prostrate beneath the lash of the Orbital powers, and Earth’s Balkanized nations have no choice but to let the Orbitals plunder their remaining wealth.
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