"Walter Jon Williams kills every damn time." ---Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorSteward is a Beta- a clone. In his memories, he's an elite commando for an orbital policorp- but because his Alpha never did a brain-scan update, Steward's memories are fifteen years out...
In Voice of the Whirlwind, Walter Jon Williams has projected the universe of Hardwired one hundred years into the future, to a time when the orbitals have become independent feudal states with an interstellar drive. But the one constant of humankind is political intrigue... ...
In the bestselling sequel to Hardwired!, Steward's memories are 15 years old because his alpha never did have a brain-scan update, and in those 15 years, the entire world has changed. "More than either Zelazny or Gibson, (Williams) is a master of the . . . essence of thrillers...