He drives without the use of hands or feet, his mind living in the cool neural interface that exists somewhere between the swift images that pass before his windscreen and the electric awareness that is the alloy body and liquid crystal heart of the Maserati.

The panzerboy drives north from Santa Fe, over the Sangre de Cristos on the high road through Truchas, heading for Colorado, wanting to get as close as possible to the night sky. I think I'm just going to put a note in here for the librarians to ask when this was taken out last and why they have it / still have it.Table of Contents Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-one Chapter Twenty-two Chapter Twenty-three Chapter Twenty-fourĬhapter One By midnight he knows his discontent will not let him sleep. There's no railroading here, exactly, because there's not a lot of plot, just some situations with zaibatsu soldiers and gang etc., etc. (Like: here's a tank you can drive for your gun smuggling.) Again, with no actual knowledge of the Cyberpunk game, I can't judge how successfully this paints a truly different picture of a cyberpunk future, as Walter Jon Williams's books seem like another foundational taproot for the genre.īut I will say I did enjoy the second half, which is adventures that are outlined more than described, more like. This book is half given over to rules and setting info about how Walter Jon Williams's cyberpunk future differs or distinguishes itself.

Honestly, I do not know the game Cyberpunk, which seems like a pretty standard cyberpunk game - running the internet, getting into gunfights with zaibatsu soldiers and yakuza street samurai, etc., etc.

A real oddity: my library, which mostly has modern and recent roleplaying books, has this book, which is a campaign sourcebook for the game Cyberpunk, based on Walter Jon Williams's novel/series Hardwired, written by Walter Jon Williams himself.

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