…es somewhere, though. He has started designing unauthorized personal projects in the hours between 2 and 5 AM, dense and strange and nothing like his portfolio, which…

…than is comfortable. He is not yet sure if he's the kind of person who ends up staying in this life.

…be somebody else, in another city, with another name — that person is officially dead, and Abiodun Espinoza plans to keep it that way. They work as a rigger out of Me…

Abiodun Sesay has the kind of face that is difficult to hold in memory — medium everything, carefully so. Their skin is a warm olive-brown, their hair is kep…

Adaeze Calvillo-Dlamini is a compact, unhurried man with deep brown skin going papery at the temples and a magnificent white moustache he waxes every morning…

Adaeze Nwosu-Ekwensi is physically extraordinary—193 centimeters and built like a structural beam, with warm medium-brown skin, a shaved head he keeps obsess…

Adaeze Nygaard-Keïta is a pale-skinned child who tans unevenly and has his Central African grandmother's deep-set eyes and his Swedish grandfather's white-bl…

Adaeze Okonkwo-Subramaniam is a broad-shouldered woman whose age has settled into her frame like ballast — she moves slowly but with absolute certainty, as i…

Adaeze Touré is a broad-shouldered woman with deep brown skin mapped by two decades of outdoor organizing — laugh lines deep enough to hold water, a scar bis…

Adaeze Traoré is a lean, sun-darkened man whose face carries the deep-etched lines of someone who has slept outdoors more than inside. His hair is silver-str…

Aditya Ekwensi a Senior Director of Competitive Intelligence. The title meant he ran the division that stole other corporations' secrets. He was exceptional …

Aditya Konaté-Sesay-Deshpande is a compact, heavyset woman whose hands are the most expressive thing about her — calloused at the fingertips from decades of …

Aditya Salazar-Pathak is stocky and solid, with hands that look like they were built for breaking things and a face that confirms it. At 40, he has the kind …

Aditya Sengupta is a broad-shouldered woman with close-cropped silver-threaded locs and deep brown skin mapped with old surgical scars on both forearms — the…

Aditya Sigurdsson-Banerjee is slight and angular, with the permanently shadowed eyes of someone who keeps laboratory hours — which is to say, no hours, sleep…

…it, that physical discipline is the most democratic thing a person can practice.

Aero Kimura is the kind of person who is precisely as beautiful as they need to be for the room they are in — they adjust presentatio…

Aero Kovács-Cervantes is tall and angular with the kind of restless energy that makes them look like they are always about to say something important. Their …

Aero Kristjánsson is compact and densely muscled, built low to the ground like something designed to survive impacts. At 44, scars map her face like a transi…

Aero Larsdóttir is rangy and perpetually in motion, with warm amber-brown skin, a scatter of freckles across their nose and cheekbones, and hair that color-s…

Aero Mohammadi-Deshpande is a large, unhurried man — Samoan-Siberian ancestry visible in his height, his round broad face, and the weathered calm of someone …

…lways pressed, always correct, always the most put-together person in any room she enters. She is meticulous, dry-humored, and quietly ruthless in the way only peopl…

Aero Sigurdsson-Pathak is lean to the point of architectural, all angles and deliberate stillness, with light brown skin and a shaved head except for a singl…

Aero Sow is a compact, densely energetic woman with dark olive skin, heavy black eyebrows she has never once thought to alter, and grey threading through tig…

Aero Taufa is wiry and kinetic, never quite still — they bounce a knee, tap a pattern on surfaces, turn a stylus through their fingers in endless loops. Thei…

Aero Trujillo-Appiah has the particular physical presence of someone who has spent twenty years doing heavy manual work and developed an architecture around …

Aidana Baiseitov-Zaragoza is a broad-shouldered woman with deep umber skin and close-cropped silver-threaded locs she keeps pinned under her Ferrogate operat…

Aidana Karimov is a small, unhurried woman with copper-brown skin deeply creased by decades of fluorescent light and chemical fumes. Her white hair is braide…

…ess. They assume depth. Isaak is using Kyle's violence as a personal rebrand. Before the crew, Isaak was a library aide at the Shelf Community Archive — one of the l…

Aiyana Huitzil-Szabó is wiry and restless, with sandy-brown skin, a scatter of darker freckles across his nose, and color-changing hair he keeps medium-lengt…

…scoop and a look that assesses whether they're the kind of person who tips or the kind who complains. He remembers faces better than names, has strong opinions about…

Aiyana Tetteh-Yoon is a young woman with her Gujarati father's compact build and her Quechua mother's dark, straight-cut hair — which she keeps in a single p…

Alejandro Arredondo is a broad-shouldered man with deep umber skin that carries the scattered shine of old bioluminescent ink — a cosmetic mod from his twent…

Alejandro Hernández is lean and angular, with the particular pallor of someone who works night shifts in fluorescent-lit sublevels, though his Ugandan-Hungar…

Alejandro Inoue is slight and angular with the particular restless energy of someone who is always working out a problem internally even when they appear cal…

Aleksei Solberg is a broad-shouldered woman with dark amber skin weathered by decades of outdoor market life, her natural hair tucked under a wide-brimmed pl…

Alisher Saidov is a big man — not tall exactly, but densely constructed, with broad shoulders and a solidity of posture that suggests he has been hit by thin…

Alofa Björnsdóttir-Taualagi-Sefanaia is a wide-shouldered man gone soft at the edges, with deep brown skin mapped by decades of industrial pigment stains he …

…they remember everything, and they're reliably the calmest person in any crisis, which generates a particular kind of loyalty in the people who work under them. They…

Ama Cissé is average height but with a presence that fills more space than the body accounts for. At 26, she has the kind of face that changes depending on t…

…me from across the city. They are professionally gentle and personally guarded, with a dry wit that emerges only when they're comfortable.

Ama Erikstad is a compact, dark-skinned woman of Nigerian-Dutch descent with close-cropped hair shaved to geometric patterns on one side — a style she touche…

Ama Hayashi is stocky and solid, with hands that look like they were built for breaking things and a face that confirms it. At 37, her face is memorable in a…

Ama Hossain is a broad-shouldered woman with dark amber skin and close-cropped silver hair she stopped dyeing when she turned forty and decided she'd earned …

Ama Karimi is a small woman who dresses exclusively in undyed natural fabrics, a deliberate choice that makes her look slightly out of place in every room sh…

Ama Odinga is a rail-thin nine-year-old with close-cropped hair dyed the faded orange of someone who found a half-spent pigment cartridge and made the most o…

…or distribution, or not primarily — she maintains a massive personal archive of GLMZ's underclass, shot over forty years, that she considers her life's work and has n…

Amara Achebe is a tall, angular woman with close-cropped silver hair she let go early — a choice that cost her nothing socially and saved her considerable ma…

…be somebody else, in another city, with another name — that person is officially dead, and Amara Boateng-Shin plans to keep it that way. They work as a surveillance s…

Amara Quartey-Prempeh is a broad-shouldered woman with deep umber skin, thick silver-streaked locs piled high in a wrap of orange and violet fabric, and biol…

Amina Amrani is willowy and precise, with the kind of stillness that comes from spending twelve hours a day bent over a fabrication rig. Their skin is a warm…

Amir Cervantes-Najjar is the kind of man who seems physically incapable of standing still — he shifts weight between his feet, drums fingers, adjusts his Fer…

Amir Cisneros-Tovar-Khorasani has the particular exhaustion of someone who is moderately successful in a field that chews through people, and who has chosen …

Anahera Taufa is wiry and quick-moving, with the restless energy of someone who converts anxiety into velocity. At 39, the augmentation scarring around her t…

Ananya Bautista-Kulkarni-Traoré is lanky and perpetually underfed-looking, with the kind of restless energy that makes him seem taller than he is. His herita…

Ananya Esquivel is a broad-shouldered woman with deep umber skin mapped by the fine white creases of a life spent hunched over steam presses and hand-stitchi…

Ananya Krishnamurthy is angular and deliberate, with pale skin weathered by years in Geartown's industrial air, dark red hair grown to her collar and always …

Andrei An-Saito-Olofsson in Axiom CorpSec, rising to Senior Investigator in the Special Investigations Division — the unit that handles crimes too complex or…

…rn to a specific softness at the collar. He is the kind of person who is most himself when alone but does not enjoy being lonely — a contradiction he has not resolve…

…-five after a lifetime of thinking they weren't the sort of person who got geneware, and they are still quietly delighted by them. Their hair is silver and kept very…

Anjali Castañeda is a compact Romanian-Nigerian woman with deep umber skin, close-cropped silver-streaked hair she keeps pinned under a faded surgical cap, a…

…three successful contract actions in the past decade and is personally responsible for the Hamtramck Enclave maintenance workers' current health and hazard provisions…

Anjali Rahman is tall and rawboned, the kind of frame that suggests either malnutrition or efficiency depending on the decade. At 40, her expression defaults…

Anya Cisneros is a large man going soft at the middle, with the build of someone who used to do heavy work and now does a different kind of heavy work. His s…

Anya Horváth is a tall woman with a swimmer's build gone slightly soft at the edges, her dark brown skin mapped with her own work — geometric Swahili coastli…

Anya Lewandowski is young enough that people still call him 'the boy' without meaning anything cruel by it, and old enough that it has started to wear on him…

…ot from aggression but from a total failure to monitor interpersonal distance when his brain is elsewhere. He is a prodigy in a narrow lane — his memory for genomic…

Anya Solberg-Vestergaard-Szabó is lean and angular, with the kind of face that is always on the verge of an expression — not quite smiling, not quite worried…

Anya Wojciechowski is slight, with deep golden-brown skin, sharp cheekbones, and hair that shifts color through the full visible spectrum across a thirty-min…

…ging leaks, flagging irregularities. In practice she is the person the company calls when something needs to disappear without leaving fingerprints on the company its…

Aponi Prempeh-Citlali is a compact, precise woman who moves like she is conscious of leaving no unnecessary impression — small steps, still hands, a habit of…

Aponi Tlaloc is small and moves quickly, the way people do when they've spent years navigating narrow corridors between occupied beds. She has warm dark skin…

Arc Fredriksen-Valenzuela is a tall man whose body has softened comfortably into middle age, broad through the shoulders and belly, moving through space with…

Arc Kamara-Holm the Graycloaks. Enormous, unaugmented by choice, carries a salvaged riot shield he has never had to use.

Arc Kovalenko-Ogawa is nineteen years old and moves like she expects the ground to give way. She's thin in the way of someone whose calories are unreliable, …

Arc Lahlou is a lean, angular man of fifty-one who looks like he was assembled from straight lines — sharp jaw, thin mouth, prominent cheekbones that cast sh…

Arc Sigurdsson-Park-Tamale is a commanding presence without performing it — she is tall, angular, with silver-threaded locs wrapped under a bright indigo clo…

Arden An-Björnsdóttir is lean and faintly luminescent from years of proximity to bioluminescent fungal blooms — her brown skin carries a permanent bluish-gre…

Arden Árnason-Mori was an electrical systems technician for the Shelf's grid maintenance before a contract dispute with the Meridian Grid Authority left him …

Arden Balasanyan-Hayashi-Cardenas is built like something that was once much larger and has been reduced by careful attrition. He is tall and wide-shouldered…

…movements of someone who grew up in a small space, and her personal style is a rotating argument: today structured and architectural, tomorrow soft and layered, alwa…

Arden Ekwensi-Odinga is athletic and fluid, the kind of body that suggests either dancer or fighter — and in GLMZ, the distinction is academic. At 59, she ha…

Arden Erikstad is lean and angular, all sharp edges and visible tension. At 46, he has the kind of face that changes depending on the light — trustworthy in …

Arden Kariuki-Chatterjee-Somchai is lean in the way people get when they've been hungry enough times that the body learns to run efficient. His Tswana-Botswa…

Arden Makwa-Guerrero is a tall man gone slightly soft in the middle, with deep brown skin, close-cropped white hair, and a beard he keeps meaning to trim. He…

Arden Mansour is small for fourteen, with the compact, quick-twitch build of someone who has spent years fitting into spaces adults cannot. His skin is deep …

Arden Morimoto is a big woman, wide through the shoulders and unhurried in every movement, with dark skin and close-cropped natural hair going silver at the …

Arden Rahman-Tursunov-Guerrero is a compact woman with deep umber skin that carries old burn scarring across her left forearm and neck — damage from a clinic…

Arden Salazar is a small, round-faced nine-year-old with his South African grandfather's dark complexion and his Russian grandmother's light gray eyes, a com…

Arden Sefanaia is slight and quick, built like someone who learned early that the best defense is to be somewhere else before trouble registers he's present.…

Arden Zielinski is lean and angular, her dark brown skin carrying faint scarring from a childhood in Hough Reclamation where she learned to run before she le…

Arjun Kulkarni-Larsdóttir is all angles and velocity — sharp elbows, fast movements, a face that shifts rapidly between expressions as though her internal st…

Ash Amrani is slight and pale in the way of someone who has spent formative years in low-light server environments, with Lithuanian-Nigerian heritage that sh…

…full picture. He is, beneath the polish, a deeply dangerous person, and the operation is approaching the size where a single point of failure could unravel everything…

Ash Banerjee-Kabwit is young enough that his face hasn't fully decided what it's going to settle into — there's still something unfinished about him, a quali…

Ash Cissé is a compact, energetic woman with rich dark skin, sharp cheekbones, and a wide gap-toothed smile that she deploys like a tool. Her hair is kept in…