The Most Fun You'll Have Getting Hurt Quiz

Answer: super-glasses, retractable fingernail blades

The street samurai is described as a small woman. Yet with implanted silver glasses providing night-vision and statistics, plus sharp blades hidden in her fingernails, she has definite advantages when she fights. Some part of her thinks fights are fun, even the few times she's not paid for them.

Answer: the amazing lives of rich stimstars

The strangely innocent girl in this book, caught in a cycle of abuse only momentarily softened, never seems interested in learning how to read. However, great-looking clothes and watching "stims" are another matter altogether.

Answer: his place, working with others on the matrix

Tick is a "data thief" with a large clean flat, where everything is carefully aligned and computers fill most of the room. Tick moves most fluidly within the bright grid of cyberspace, enjoying its challenges and wide-spread community.

Answer: old memories and new knowledge

The Finn, a recurring character, is often just glimpsed by others in Gibson's fiction, people who only see his yellowed eyes peering at them, or hear a choking sound they slowly realize is the Finn laughing.
Agoraphobia (often fear of the outdoors) combined with pessimistic curiosity can be a world of pain. The Finn's dark humor turns his pain into fun and discovery.

Answer: is open to life; hesitates but goes for it

This character in Gibson's "Bridge" trilogy is presented as an awkward man, big and often surprised. Rydell's last-second decisions become a tipping point into larger events. His painful desire to be a respected lawman is compromised by sudden compassion. Others trust Rydell and involve him in entirely unexpected adventures that include fun.

Answer: realizes he can maybe save the world

Laney is interesting because of his unique talent with data, and the conflicts that arise from it. One day he'll worry about wearing a shirt with the right threadcount, the next he'll race to save someone's life. Laney's true satisfaction, fleeting or not, provides a fresh look at our own.

Answer: uses ancient skills to reach new goals

Tito is a character with many facets. He is scared of flying, yet scales heights with ease. He looks aimlessly alone, yet a large family surrounds him. Saints seem to be his focus, yet orishas are what he's learned and accepted. He feels pain and loss, yet knows ease and gains. Tito is pretty fun himself.

Answer: a return to his childhood home

Turner is near the end of a long recovery from a bomb that nearly killed him when he gets the new job readers now see him do. But this job causes reactions like a bomb in Turner's heart, blowing apart his former young determination to leave home forever. Both the physical and spiritual surprises that change Turner in this book make great reading.

Answer: tells jokes, gives warnings, is her secret friend

Kumiko has lots to learn in London, including the real reason her father sent her there and more about her mother's death. The ghost, inside a unit that fits Kumiko's hand so he appears when she squeezes it, is named Colin, and can only be seen or heard by Kumiko. And he is much, much more than a spectral guide to England.

Answer: he follows his instinct, and now he can buy that kit to make his own candy

This quiz ends with Boomzilla because he is not only wise about adults, he is more observant than most. He is the only one to notice that the glowing lady people are too excited to see also has no clothes on while she goes everywhere.
Then Boomzilla returns to mixing candy powders on the sidewalk, because you have to get the mix just right, right? Lots more fun than just buying candy.