Ings, Simon Hotwire ISBN 13: 9780575131088

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A fast-moving cyberpunk thriller set in a world of thinking cities, ruthless corporations and mad orbital AIs. A novel that links the groundbreaking works of William Gibson to the new generation of writers such as Charlie Stross and Hannu Rajaniemi.

Ajay had a future once, birthing intelligent cities for the Haag Agency. First Delhi, then Milan. But then he is seduced into betraying his employers and finds himself working for a city that wishes to become human.

Ajay must steal some rare technology from a long-dead wetware expert, a new Frankenstein called Snow, a man now alive in an AI. A man who wants a new toy for his manufactured daughter ...

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Not a sequel to his first novel Hot Head, but set in the same world and sharing some of the same preoccupations, Simon Ings' Hotwire asks some interesting questions about how we become human, and how to become human again. Ajay made some bad choices once upon a time--he got his grandfather killed and his sister horribly mutilated; to pay to have her rebuilt, an organ at a time, he has become an all-purpose heavy, first a secret policeman and then an assassin. Rosa has never had any choices--she roams, inconsequentially, the corridors of the space station that is, in a very real sense, her mother, scared of everything she meets and sees. When these two find themselves in improbable alliance, the consequences could be scary, and are highly charged and erotic and at times touching. This is a book about coming to terms with reality, and the very improbability of much of the reality with which the central characters have to come to terms does not lessen the hardness of their choices and our sympathy with them. Full of strongly visualised exotic settings--the slums of Brazil and the interiors of mind human and artificial--this lives up to Ings' early promise. --Roz Kaveney
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A cyberpunk classic of a new Frankenstein from the critically acclaimed author of WOLVES, reborn for a new generation.

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  • PublisherGollancz
  • Publication date2014
  • ISBN 10 057513108X
  • ISBN 13 9780575131088
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages304
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