7.4 /10 1 Votes7.4
Language English Media type Print (paperback) Originally published 28 December 2004 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date 28 December 2004 ISBN 0-553-58750-1 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 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."