JOHNNIE MNEMOINIC

Intro by Bruce Sterling. Story one of the Sprawl Series. Burning Chrome. Post apocalypse. Cyberntics, biotect, communications web are the future. Losers, hustlers, cast offs. Allies of the future, not the board rooms. Invisible lit - gov doct, data files, non-public data - Gibson

START

from JM's point of view. plot hard to follow. has shotgun goes to a club called the drome to meet ralfi.

he has a face job - at the UNDER THE KNIFE. - white guy

Drome- magnetic dog sisters.

He tries to pass himself off as Eddie Brax - but Ralfi recognizes him - shotgun in addidas bag is antique.

ralfi wears the face of chrsitian white of the aryan raggae band - race rock.

everyone's face has been changed. question of identity based on appearance.

JM has this stolen yakuza data in his head that ralfi put there. he needs to get it out. he wants ralfi to do it - ralfi is the data broker who is trying to sell the data JM has cranked into his head. (The yakuza thmselves stole it from Ono-Sendai. Industrial espionage.)

girl cuts ralfi - she wantrs a job MOLLY MILLIONS as a body guared - her eyes are surgical lays - new face -

they meet yauka with the cutting thumb - R gets killed - JM fires - gets away.

cut to aftermath -– R is dead. Hitman is a custom biotech job. from Chiba - she knows chiba - she has implants from Chiba-

yakuza biggest corporation

they hide from yakuka above nighttown with the LOWTECHS.

need to get the data out with pasword. he doesn't have the password - he needs to find someone with a SQUID - the squid will read the chip to get the code so that he can download the data without the password. SQUIDS are very difficult to find - too dangerous.

She says she knows a SQUID - a dolphin named JONEs who was trained by the navy to get next to subs and read out computer systems. They made him addicted to heroine to get him to work for them.

Molly will take him to Jones but they ned to take him some junk. Jones was a left over.

LOW TECHS are in FUNLAND - a backalley cornival. Jones is a side show act. (see SIDESHOW) He is set up with an AV display so people can ask him questions.

Molly asks. Jone's gets him the password. He gets some decks so he can downlad the data and keep yaks from getting him for his data.

Ninja are following him into nighttown. LOWTECHS live in the bridge.

information economy – infor is power and wealth. - send a message to a yakuza. he wants to deal. call off assassins or we wipe out the data. he sends a sample to them in Australia so that they know he has the real thing. however, it is not possible to down load everything without leaving something.

MOLLY fights assassin on KILLING FLOOR. cuts off his hand.

After that, they don't have anyone else coming for him. Don't know whether the Yaks took their deal. Whether they got the data or not.

He turns into a LOWTECH. He, Jones and Molly are in business. They sell the data and do well. Jones has a new tank.