by Walter Jon Williams
Note: I just re-read this, and decided to give it an extra star. It's slick and fast and I still like the characters. Big fun from one of the seminal cyberpunk novelsThough it involves a somewhat dark vision of earth's future, Hardwired is a fun, fast-moving cyberpunk thriller featuring flawed heroe...
Classic cyberpunk themes and style. This book drips style and cyberpunk sensibility. I liked it for what it was. Cyberpunk tends to age poorly, and this book is no exception. Something of a workmanlike novel, professional but not inspired. Williams can, and has, done better than this.
You know the bit in Species where Natasha Henstridge sticks her tongue down Anthony Guidera's throat and out through the back of his head? It won the 1996 MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, admittedly against a fairly weak field - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was a nominee. But all the same.Anyway, wh...