num_pages: 280
description: First Ballantine printing.Cover Artist: Murray TinkelmanThis book has always been popular with the techy-geeky crowd, but, since it was first published in the '70s, it missed out on the cyberpunk revolution of the '80s. It's too bad, because this is a compelling story of a future world tied together by a universal data network, a world that could be our tomorrow. It's a tense place filled with information overload and corporate domination, and nearly everything is known about everybody. Except Nickie Haflinger, a prodigy whose talents allow him to switch identities with a phone call. Nickie plans to change the world, if only he can keep from getting caught.
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: Ballantine Books