![]() ![]() It's nice to see that she handles the novel format just as well. I have read and listened to a few short stories by Bear that I thought were fantastic. It was one of those books that took great willpower to put down when I to go do other things. ![]() The plot was so tight the characters were so interesting and the story was both intriguing and exciting. I find it really hard to believe that Hammered was Elizabeth Bear's first novel. Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart.”-Richard Morgan “A gritty and painstakingly well-informed peek at a future we’d all better hope we don’t get. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. She was engineered for combat-in a world that is running out of time. ![]()
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