A massive biosoft storage device - a single solid lump of biochip with virtually infinite storage capacity. It functions...

Lethal intrusion countermeasures that can kill a hacker by inducing braindeath. McCoy Pauley earned the nickname Dixie F...

A Japanese city whose black clinics represent the cutting edge of illegal medical technology - nerve-splicing, implants,...

Capsule-style accommodation common in Chiba City - cheap, minimal sleeping pods. White fibreglass coffins racked in indu...

A hacker who operates in cyberspace, using a deck to penetrate corporate data systems for profit. Cowboys cultivate a re...

A recorded copy of a person's mind stored in ROM, preserving their personality, knowledge, and conversational patterns a...

A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of operators worldwide. A graphic representation of data abstra...

The hardware used by console cowboys to access cyberspace. Ranging from cheap models to the premium Ono-Sendai Cyberspac...

Flat electrodes placed against the skin, typically strapped across the forehead, that interface the human nervous system...

An orbital spindle-shaped space station - brothel and banking nexus, pleasure dome and free port, border town and spa. L...

Geodesic dome structures that are part of the Sprawl's skyline, named after Buckminster Fuller. The Sprawl's towers and ...

A bar in the Sprawl that serves as a famous gathering place for console cowboys. Case spent most of his nineteenth summe...

Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics - defensive software protecting corporate and institutional data systems in cybers...

The act of connecting to cyberspace via a deck and dermatrodes, projecting one's disembodied consciousness into the matr...

A computer nexus that was the target of the Screaming Fist military operation, where prototypes of the programs cowboys ...

A Chinese-made virus and icebreaker program, described as user-friendly and a one-shot cassette. It unfolds as polychrom...

Voodoo spirits that manifest within cyberspace, central to Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Entities like Legba, Baro...

Derogatory slang for the physical body, used by console cowboys who prefer the bodiless exultation of cyberspace. The el...

Small chip-based skill modules that slot into a socket behind the ear, granting the user specific knowledge or abilities...

The second Tessier-Ashpool AI, counterpart to Wintermute. While Wintermute is the aggressive, planning intelligence, Neu...

Paper currency that circulates endlessly through the closed circuit of the world's black markets. In the Sprawl, legitim...

The lawless entertainment district within Chiba City, with Ninsei as its heart. Described as a deranged experiment in so...

A Japanese corporation that manufactures the premier cyberspace decks used by console cowboys. Their Cyberspace 7 model ...

The premier brand of cyberspace deck used by console cowboys. Case's Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 is described as next year's...

A youth subculture in the Sprawl hired by Case's team to create diversions. A softhead variant on an earlier group calle...

A military operation in which cyberspace warfare was pioneered. The prototypes of programs cowboys use to crack industri...

A major media and entertainment corporation that holds the Dixie Flatline's ROM personality construct in a heavily iced ...

Simulated stimulation technology that allows users to experience another person's full sensorium - sight, hearing, touch...

The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (BAMA), a massive urban conurbation stretching along the US eastern seaboard. Home ...

A reclusive, enormously wealthy first-generation high-orbit family that owns most of Freeside and the Villa Straylight. ...

A law enforcement agency that monitors and regulates artificial intelligences. They enforce the principle that when an A...

The private residence at the zero-gravity tip of the Freeside spindle, home to the Tessier-Ashpool family. A labyrinthin...

One of two AIs owned by Tessier-Ashpool S.A., housed in a mainframe in Berne. It orchestrates the entire plot of Neuroma...

A makeshift space habitat near Freeside, home to a Rastafarian community living in freefall. Its patchwork hull is laser...

The Rastafarian community living in the Zion cluster near Freeside. They live in freefall, view cyberspace as Babylon, a...

Japanese mega-corporations that dominate the global economy. Characters reference living one's whole life for one zaibat...