num_pages: 280
description: A Science Fiction Book Club Selection "When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated — but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has — with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since." — Alvin Toffler Author of Future Shock He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist! Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code — then he escaped. Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster. He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!
language: English
title: The Shockwave Rider
titlecomplete: The Shockwave Rider
characters: Nickie Haflinger
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 3990
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Best International Long Fiction
publisher: Del Rey