Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() That's pretty good for a book written in the early '80s. Toward the end of the book, one of the protagonists makes calls from within moving vehicles, too. This offers some amount of possibile justification for why there might be public telephones in the world (and the public telephones do have futuristic flourishes, too, like the ability to jack in directly with cyberware in one's head instead of using a handset). NOTE: I've seen some other reviews mention the presence of public phones as making the book "dated" when reading it in the era of mobile telephony, but it's worth pointing out that there is a point where the book presents some explanation that using mobile phones presented a security vulnerability not true of landlines. In short, if you're in the mood for some cyberpunk, you can find it here, and it's an interesting read. the almost ubiquitous, in literary works, "clip" instead of "magazine" for an automatic or semi-automatic firearm's detachable magazine) - you know, the kind of thing that makes me paranoid about what terms I might misuse when writing fiction, without even realizing it. It contains a bit of the typical science fiction exposition, occasional weird metaphors, and slightly (but perhaps jarringly) off-center use of terms (e.g. ![]() It's descriptive, usually without getting too heavy-handed at description. This kinda lives in the blurry area between cyberpunk and post-apocalyptic literature, with a somewhat heavier weight in the cyberpunk realm. ![]()
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