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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Originally published
  
28 December 2004

Publisher
  
Bantam Spectra

3.7/5
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Publication date
  
28 December 2004

ISBN
  
0-553-58750-1

Author
  
Elizabeth Bear

Country
  
United States of America

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Series
  
The Jenny Casey Trilogy

Pages
  
352 (paperback edition)

Genres
  
Fiction, Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Awards
  
Locus Award for Best First Novel

Similar
  
Elizabeth Bear books, Locus Award for Best First Novel winners, Fiction books

Hammered is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear first published on 28 December 2004 by Bantam Spectra. The book won the 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel. It is the first book of a trilogy made of Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired.

Contents

Plot

The story of Canadian Master warrant officer Jenny Casey an ex-soldier who has cybernetic replacements for an arm and an eye that she lost during combat. Jenny's former commander, who was responsible for replacing her limbs, contacts her to bring her into a secret government corporate project that she is uniquely qualified to participate in.

Reception

Publishers Weekly said in their review that "Bear's often jagged prose ('We disembark in Brazil, which has the distinction of being one of several countries I've been shot at in. Shot down over, even...') suits the frequent, at times confusing narrative jumps between the virtual and real worlds" and that "readers may have difficulties following this sometimes chaotic story." Noah Robischon in his review for Entertainment Weekly said that "Bear is talented, but this debut starts more good ideas than it finishes."

Awards

  • 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel
  • Release details

  • 2004, United States of America, Bantam Spectra ISBN 0-553-58750-1, Pub date 28 December 2004, Paperback
  • References

    Hammered (Bear novel) Wikipedia