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Voice of the whirlwind
- Title
- Voice of the whirlwind / Walter Jon Williams.
- Author
- Williams, Walter Jon.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : T. Doherty Associates, ©1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3573.I456213 V6 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 278 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Williams's novel Hardwired was a well-written but standard entry in the cyberpunk sweepstakes launched by William Gibson's Neuromancer. This follow-up, however, is much more interesting and successful. Etienne Steward is the clone ("Steward Beta'') of a hero of the Artifact Wars, in which multinational corporations fielded armies to plunder alien ruins. He's been given Steward Alpha's memories minus the last years of the hero's life: the war and its aftermath. Now Steward Beta begins an investigation, tracking down Alpha's wife, friends, enemies and fellow vets to fill in the picture and learn why Alpha was murdered. In particular, Beta probes the war, its horrors, its betrayals and The Powers, the aliens who ended it. Resonances of Vietnam-era moral concerns make this deft updating of the post-World War II genre of psychological thrillers about amnesiacs one of the best of its kind.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Note
- "A TOR book"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN
- 0312930135
- 9780312930134
- LCCN
- 86051494
- OCLC
- ocm15651930
- 15651930
- SCSB-1177956
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library