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Summary: A veteran's story told through authentic cyberpunk.
Review: An intense story with three dimensional characters and realistic portrayals of action, this is a fast-paced, gritty ride into the future. This novel is based on plot and characters (not technology or glitz) and is a real literary contribution to the cyberpunk movement. An enduring classic the day it was published, it addresses issues that are common to veterans of any war--what is life like in peacetime (after the struggle) and what is the value of a so called "broken" veteran of a horrible conflict.
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Summary: CLASSIC Cyberpunk
Review: Bought this book for the cover and was pleasantly suprised by the contents. Very well written, with all the paranoia and action cyberpunk fans expect.I wish he would write more like this one.
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Summary: Best Cyberpunk ever
Review: I read a lot of cyberpunk and this was the best one of the lot.
Williams has surpassed the master himself, William Gibson, with Voice of the Whirlwind.
I couldn't get into Hardwired, the prequel to this book, but I could not put this one down. Williams, if you are reading this, give us more!
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Summary: Erase the infamy
Review: Our story starts simply enough. A clone is revived, and is found to be missing some memory. Darwin days, a time of hyper-evolution, where the weak die, from plate glass windows dropped from skyscraper and worse, forms the backdrop of the urban chaos that is the heart of any good cyberpunk novel. What do you get when you take a young gang member out of France, put him in rigorous training of both the body and the mind in Zen without the morality, and then drop him in the middle of a war that goes bad? You get the Whirlwind. And the voice of the Whirlwind calls to our hero across death, across 15 years of lost memory, across cultures. Because those who sow the Wind will reap the Whirlwind, our hero is caught up in the events of a past life (his), that tears apart the current life he is trying to build. As the reader and our hero uncover the mystery of his past life, the story builds to an inevitable conclusion. We learn philosophy, and the trap of only getting selected pieces of philosophy. We learn what one must do to survive. And we enjoy the book immensely.
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Summary: Erase the infamy
Review: Our story starts simply enough. A clone is revived, and is found to be missing some memory. Darwin days, a time of hyper-evolution, where the weak die, from plate glass windows dropped from skyscraper and worse, forms the backdrop of the urban chaos that is the heart of any good cyberpunk novel. What do you get when you take a young gang member out of France, put him in rigorous training of both the body and the mind in Zen without the morality, and then drop him in the middle of a war that goes bad? You get the Whirlwind. And the voice of the Whirlwind calls to our hero across death, across 15 years of lost memory, across cultures. Because those who sow the Wind will reap the Whirlwind, our hero is caught up in the events of a past life (his), that tears apart the current life he is trying to build. As the reader and our hero uncover the mystery of his past life, the story builds to an inevitable conclusion. We learn philosophy, and the trap of only getting selected pieces of philosophy. We learn what one must do to survive. And we enjoy the book immensely.
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Summary: Excellent. Terrific plot and good characterization.
Review: This book is excellent. It easily makes my list of top ten sci-fi. The plot, while complex, comes together without using gratuitious coincidences. It is a great combination of space opera and cyberpunk. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Not a sequel to "Hardwired", a brand new excellent book
Review: This book is in what appears to be the same universe as "Hardwired" but at a later time. There are no common characters. This is a highly convoluted plot, but it all makes sense. Very original and imaginative. Wouldn't you want to work for a company called "Far Ranger"?. Highly recomended. Williams books are either excellent or not worth reading. This one is in the former category
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Summary: Read this book twice.
Review: Voice of the Whirlwind is a complex piece of work, and I'm not ashamed to say I didn't "get it" the first time through. For me it was the kind of novel that opens up like a lotus blossom on a second read, revealing the beauty within. The contention over whether it's a sequel to Hardwired comes from it taking place in the same universe, but more than a century later. There's little to tie them together; the proper "sequel" to Hardwired is a short short called Solip:System, available in the Williams collection Frankensteins and Foreign Devils.
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Summary: Read this book twice.
Review: Voice of the Whirlwind is a complex piece of work, and I'm not ashamed to say I didn't "get it" the first time through. For me it was the kind of novel that opens up like a lotus blossom on a second read, revealing the beauty within. The contention over whether it's a sequel to Hardwired comes from it taking place in the same universe, but more than a century later. There's little to tie them together; the proper "sequel" to Hardwired is a short short called Solip:System, available in the Williams collection Frankensteins and Foreign Devils.
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Summary: An advance mixture of far ranging SF and Cyberpunk
Review: When I read this book, I could find nothing that related it to Hardwired in any way. That said, this is still a fantastic novel. In the first pages, a certain well-known story cliche is introduced. Don't let it throw you, keep reading, you won't regret it. Mr. Williams stages an intricately layered plot, just as soon as you think everything is wrapped up, a completely unexpected and totally believable new layer is revealed. I read it in a single day.
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