Questa serie immerge i lettori in un mondo postapocalittico e grintoso dove la tecnologia avanzata si scontra con la resilienza umana. Segui i viaggi di ex piloti d'élite le cui menti sono state potenziate per l'interfaccia neurale diretta con i macchinari. Questi eroi potenziati navigano in un paesaggio pericoloso, inseguiti da spietate entità corporative e dalle leggi di stati fratturati. È una saga ad alta tensione di sopravvivenza, ribellione e lotta contro probabilità schiaccianti in un mondo rimodellato dalla cibernetica.
Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gibson's Neuromancer. According to Locus, Hardwired is Walter Jon Williams's "best book to date".Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals.
Set in a transformed world, the story follows Steward, a beta clone grappling with outdated memories and a rapidly changing society. With the collapse of the Orbital Policorp and the loss of friends in an off-planet war, he faces personal upheaval, including two divorces. As he navigates his new reality, he discovers the shocking truth that he has been murdered, prompting a quest for answers amidst the chaos of alien relations and his own fragmented past.