Series
Hardwired
Walter Jon Williams · 2 novels · 1 novelette · 1986–1989
Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired (1986) is an early and influential cyberpunk novel. Voice of the Whirlwind, published three years later, is a loosely connected follow-up set in the same future, sharing its technological and political backdrop with a different cast of characters.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Hardwired at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s3
Shape
2 novels · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:cyberpunkartificial intelligenceour worldnear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Voice of the Whirlwinddarkest · calmest
- Hardwiredbrightest · most intense