Hardwired (novel)

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HardWired
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Author Walter Jon Williams
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Night Shade Books
Publication date 1986
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
ISBN 978-1597800624

Hardwired is a 1986 cyberpunk science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Series

HardWired is part of a series which includes: