He has, for me, the kind of voice that can sometimes distract me from the story that I'm trying to listen to. Also, veteran narrator, Stefan Rudnicki was definitely on top of his game reading this one. Morgan, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson and their like, then Hardwired should be an satisfying choice for you. If you are a fan of the cyberpunk genre and or Richard K. The pace of the story became a little slow for me in the middle, but on the whole, this was an excellent story and I think worth your credit. Through a series of events in the story, the two main character's, Cowboy, an ex-fighter pilot turned bootlegger and Sarah, a sometimes body guard, thug and killer for hire, find that their lives have become intertwined. There are social classes built around them and a whole slew of other things that the author builds in his vision of earth's future.

They hover above it and manipulate life below without being part of it. The world is now run by various corporations that don't even reside on the planet. I have not read the print version, buit I suspect the audio version is a better experience because of Runicki's narration.Ī well told story set in a depressing futureĪ hard boiled, cyberpunk styled tale of two very different people just getting by, in a very depressing, but scary believable and essentially balkanized, former United States.

Finally, Stefan Rudnicki does an excellent job of making the various characters distinct. A poor resolution could have wrecked my view of the book no matter how good the rest of the story. The conflict with the orbitals is resolved in a way that flows naturally from the story and does not feel forced. Both are interesting characters and I never found myself wanting to finish one POV so I could get to the other, which sometimes happens when the story is told from multiple viewpoints. The story is told from the perspectives of Cowboy and Sarah. The cyberpunk aspects of the story serve to enhance the characterization and the setting and do not dominate. I listened to this book because he wrote it. But Williams, in my opinion, is a better and more versatile writer.

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