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Hammered

by Elizabeth Bear

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ISBN13: 9780553587500
ISBN10: 0553587501
Condition: Standard
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Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. 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. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. 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. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control.

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"Drugs, gangs and internet warfare run rampant ... [an] ambitious debut novel."—Publishers Weekly

Synopsis:

This debut novel--the first in a hard-edged, inventive, military science fiction trilogy--introduces Jenny Casey, a very unusual heroine dealing with international politics in a world greatly altered by global warming. Original.

About the Author

Elizabeth Bear was born on the same say as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. This, coupled with her childhood tendency to read the dictionary for fun, has led inevitably to penury, intransigence, and the writing of speculative fiction. Her hobbies include incompetent archery, practicing guitar, and reading biographies of Elizabethan playmenders.

She is the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for best New Writer and the author of over a dozen published or forthcoming novels, including the Locus Award-winning Jenny Casey trilogy and the Phillip K. Dick Award-nominated Carnival. A native New Englander, she spent seven years near Las Vegas, but now lives in Connecticut with a presumptuous cat.

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pandora, April 13, 2008 (view all comments by pandora)
A sci fi book set in the Canadian future with ex-military, 50-something Jenny Casey saving the day. Action, intrigue and the promise of space travel, this is the first book in the best trilogy I've read in a decade.
Meet your future: Elizabeth Bear is an exciting new voice in fiction and Jenny Casey rocks!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780553587500
Author:
Bear, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Spectra Books
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Publication Date:
December 2004
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
6.88x4.32x.97 in. .39 lbs.

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