cdeane61's review against another edition
4.0
Started a little slow but quite a ride once it got going.
Some really interesting stuff here, unique aliens and human/alien interactions, clone backups, space habitats, and an ever evolving story line that keeps pulling you in deeper and deeper.
Like the first one, liked this one, may just have to look into the next.
Some really interesting stuff here, unique aliens and human/alien interactions, clone backups, space habitats, and an ever evolving story line that keeps pulling you in deeper and deeper.
Like the first one, liked this one, may just have to look into the next.
wintermute314's review against another edition
Meh. I bought this on a whim as a kindle low cost offer. It's cyberpunk alright but written by a machine. A mix of clichés and tough guy talk but none too credible. After a quarter of the book I abandoned it.
vailynst's review against another edition
3.0
Notes:
Currently on Audible Plus
The broad outline of the story is really interesting and some of the setting elements. It needed to be a little bit longer to let the character be fleshed out into true potential. Steward was an interesting man. It kinda sucked that the story ended right when I wanted to see what else he could or would do.
Currently on Audible Plus
The broad outline of the story is really interesting and some of the setting elements. It needed to be a little bit longer to let the character be fleshed out into true potential. Steward was an interesting man. It kinda sucked that the story ended right when I wanted to see what else he could or would do.
frasersimons's review against another edition
3.0
A bit more of a fun romp compared to the pretty excellently concocted and well executed Hardwired. But thats not a bad thing in the least. There’s some fun action, some twists across the investigation. Betrayals and deaths; frenetic pacing and excellent prose. Its exactly what it says on the tin and holds up pretty well.
ramsfan1963's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
A loose sequel to Williamson's Hardwired. Stewart is a beta, a clone, whose alpha has been murdered, without updating his memory download for the last 15 years.
bozimus's review against another edition
3.0
At one time, I would have rated this 4 stars. I recently re-read it and it wasn't as enjoyable as I had remembered.
This is basically a story (set in the near future, 100 years after the first book in the series, "Hardwired") about a clone (a beta) trying to find out why his alpha (the one from which he was cloned) was killed. Finding out why is made more difficult because the beta's memories are 15 years out of date.
There were some cool moments but the book left me a little flat this time around.
If you decide to read this book, be advised that "Hardwired" is followed by a novelette called "Solip:System" that supposedly connects to "Voice of the Whirlwind". I never read "Solip:System", so I can't attest to this personally.
This is basically a story (set in the near future, 100 years after the first book in the series, "Hardwired") about a clone (a beta) trying to find out why his alpha (the one from which he was cloned) was killed. Finding out why is made more difficult because the beta's memories are 15 years out of date.
There were some cool moments but the book left me a little flat this time around.
If you decide to read this book, be advised that "Hardwired" is followed by a novelette called "Solip:System" that supposedly connects to "Voice of the Whirlwind". I never read "Solip:System", so I can't attest to this personally.
mburnamfink's review against another edition
4.0
Walter Jon Williams gets spookiness, writing a sci-fi espionage thriller that rivals vintage Le Carre. The protagonist, Stewart, is an old insurance policy, a clone with the 15 year old memories of his original, recently murdered on a space station. Last thing he remembers, he'd finish mercenary training with the Icehawks before a mission to Sheol to recover alien artifacts. After that, well, his original was a busy man with a lot of unfinished business.
A little less stylized than Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind tracks Stewart across the solar system and into a deadly game of corporate politics and biological warfare against the alien Powers, an advanced race that holds the key to massive wealth, and possibly an escape from the brutal cycle of corporate Darwin Days and ideological entropy. It's also not as compelling, but one chapter alternating Stewart making a drug connection in LA with an account of the war on Sheol, is as fine a writing as anything in scifi.
A little less stylized than Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind tracks Stewart across the solar system and into a deadly game of corporate politics and biological warfare against the alien Powers, an advanced race that holds the key to massive wealth, and possibly an escape from the brutal cycle of corporate Darwin Days and ideological entropy. It's also not as compelling, but one chapter alternating Stewart making a drug connection in LA with an account of the war on Sheol, is as fine a writing as anything in scifi.
vailynst's review against another edition
3.0
Notes:
Currently on Audible Plus
The broad outline of the story is really interesting and some of the setting elements. It needed to be a little bit longer to let the character be fleshed out into true potential. Steward was an interesting man. It kinda sucked that the story ended right when I wanted to see what else he could or would do.
Currently on Audible Plus
The broad outline of the story is really interesting and some of the setting elements. It needed to be a little bit longer to let the character be fleshed out into true potential. Steward was an interesting man. It kinda sucked that the story ended right when I wanted to see what else he could or would do.
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