Don’t Create the Torment Nexus
Hardwired (Hardwired, volume 1)
By Walter Jon Williams

29 Apr, 2025
The Realized World
1986’s Hardwired is the first volume in Walter Jon Williams’ Hardwired cyberpunk series. To my surprise, the title is not camel-capped.
Having decisively won the Rock War, the Orbitals provided the defeated Earth with a bold New World Order. Key axiom: that the Orbitals should extract as much short-term wealth from Earth as possible.
This state of affairs provided Cowboy and Sarah with very different careers, careers fated to intersect.