This story also introduces the character Molly, who plays a prominent role in Gibson's Sprawl trilogy of novels. Jones is hooked on some hardcore drugs which he developed more than just a habit for during a war that he was used in while he was in the navy. Johnny eventually has to go to his friend Jones who is a very intelligent retired "navy dolphin" (yeah, an-actual dolphin), that is called a "SQUID". It has tech-action and Johnny who just so happen to be junkies (in the technical scene) and just as crazy or crazier as he his. This is 1981 William Gibson cyberpunk! This short story even predates his Sprawl trilogy of novels and it has so much of what is to come of his writing's just packed into a single short story, called "Johnny Mnemonic". I'd had to turn both those twelve-gauge shells from brass stock, on the lathe, and then load then myself I'd had to dig up an old microfiche with instructions for hand-loading cartridges I'd had to build a lever-action press to seat the primers―all very tricky. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. So I decided to get as crude as possible. "I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical if they think you're technical, go crude.
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