Aagje Hinojosa-Agyemang-Achebe is a tall man who has been slowly compressing under the weight of years into something that still reads as tall by sheer beari…

Aaliya Árnason-Sengupta is lean and angular, all sharp edges and visible tension. At 58, her face is memorable in a profession that rewards forgettability, a…

…— for picking up the dropped data chip, for being the only person in the corridor when the conversation happened, for remembering everything with a clarity that has…

Aanya Nanthawat is a broad, comfortable-looking woman who weaponizes the appearance of comfort. She has silver-threaded locs piled architecturally on her hea…

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

…physical music formats — he becomes a completely different person, voluble and precise and slightly alarming in his enthusiasm. He knows what data passes through the…

…d unstable. What he does instead is position himself as the person who can make problems go away, who knows where the inconvenient documentation lives, who has relati…

Abdul Khamvongsa is a heavyset man who used to be heavier, the weight loss visible in the way his skin sits on his face, the slight redundancy at his jaw. Hi…

…digital curriculum she found pedagogically catastrophic and personally offensive. She retired rather than teach the new curriculum, filed three formal complaints that…

…not Quanta, and her pantry is extensive. She is the kind of person who has become, through sheer endurance, a local institution: people come to her with problems the…

Abeesh Dalgaard-Arredondo is all sharp angles and nervous energy, a thin boy with dark olive skin, a shaved head that's grown out uneven, and a jaw that's se…

Abhay Kuznetsov is effortlessly put-together in the way of children who've grown up watching adults perform success — her hair is a natural dark brown that s…

Abhishek Echeverría is slight, angular, and in constant motion — fingers tapping, eyes scanning, one heel bouncing even when they're sitting. Their geneware …

…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…

Abril Johansson-Nygaard-Björnsdóttir is slight and easy to overlook, which is exactly the point. At 45, the augmentation scarring around her temples and jawl…

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…

Adalberto Mohammadi is a lean, angular woman whose Igbo-Icelandic heritage settled into something striking and hard to read — dark brown skin that catches fl…

…properly. Adanna Lindström-Thorvaldsdóttir is the kind of person who knows everyone's name and their mother's name too, if they've come around long enough. She is w…

Adaora Volkov is a tall man gone broad in the shoulders and soft around the middle, with dark brown skin weathered by decades of outdoor fieldwork and close-…

Adebayo Thakur is a broad-shouldered woman whose silver-streaked locs are wound with fiber-optic threads that pulse faint gold when she enters a meditative s…

Adebisi Deshpande is lean and tall with warm brown skin, prominent cheekbones inherited from his Samoan grandmother, and irises modified to project a faint g…

Adedayo Möller-Saidov is lean and angular, with pale Finnish features gone weathered and a close-cropped beard that grows in two distinct textures — fine nea…

Adel Appiah is a compact woman with deep umber skin and close-cropped natural hair shot through with threads of bioluminescent copper — a geneware mod she go…

…an external — his pharmacy is entirely contained within his person. He sets up in the same alcove at Deepwell Station every day, at the same time, with the same smal…

Adesua Im-Kristjánsson is tall and angular with deep brown skin and her mother's high cheekbones, her hair grown long and currently dyed a corporate-neutral …

…iness happens. Adimabua Larsdóttir-Olofsson is the kind of person who has been essential to a community for so long that even people who morally disapprove of gambli…

Aditi Ergashev-Tetteh is compact and densely muscled, built low to the ground like something designed to survive impacts. At 41, her face is memorable in a p…

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

Adjoa Ingebrigtsen is tall and rawboned, the kind of frame that suggests either malnutrition or efficiency depending on the decade. At 31, he has soft featur…

…ou owe people is the first step toward becoming the kind of person who built the world that drove her underground in the first place.

Adriaan Song is the kind of woman who makes a room feel both smaller and more significant simply by being present — she has that particular gravity of someon…

Adriano Balogun is a soft-looking man who has spent thirty years becoming invisible in rooms full of screens. He's broad through the chest and shoulders from…

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…

…nly relationships he feels safe in are ones where the other person doesn't know he exists. The E.L.F. that inhabits his primary monitoring array — which he has named…

…ghts on their body. Deeper impression: a desperately clever person who has turned themselves into a Swiss Army knife because being useful is the only survival strateg…

Afolami Kobayashi-Kwon is compact and deliberate in movement, with deep brown skin that carries the ghost-traces of her own past work — faded luminescent pig…

Afreen Cervantes is thin and quick and almost always in motion, her energy giving the impression of something wound very tight and vibrating at a frequency j…

Afsana Jaramillo is the kind of person who becomes invisible by being exceptionally, consistently pleasant. They are small and soft-edged,…

…He finds it better than the original. He has the specific personality of a man who loves his work with an intensity he cannot quite transfer to human beings. Not th…

Afuom Mbekele is a broad-shouldered man whose body has softened into comfortable middle age, his dark brown skin lined around the eyes and mouth in ways that…

Agastya Phommasack-Delgado is a stocky, perpetually grease-smudged man whose Indonesian-Ethiopian features have been weathered by twenty years of Harrowgate'…

Agata Chaiyaporn is wiry and quick-moving, with the restless energy of someone who converts anxiety into velocity. At 40, his face is memorable in a professi…

…rs old and already exhausted by things that would exhaust a person twice his age. He trained through a community apprenticeship program under a retired Aurochs Medica…

Agustina Taualagi is lean and angular, all sharp edges and visible tension. At 65, the augmentation scarring around his temples and jawline tells a story of …

…e he looks at it. He is also twenty-three and running a one-person operation on a borrowed reputation and a rented bay, which means he is perpetually overextended, sl…

…rmite Collective, Mika ran solo social engineering jobs — impersonating corporate employees to gain physical access to secured facilities. They were good at it. Too g…

…ided that the only way he can still use his is by being the person people in his building trust absolutely.

…ho was not ultimately impressible. He is a profoundly calm person, almost to a fault. Twelve-hour shifts in a sealed cab watching the city slide past a window have g…

Ahlam Ingebrigtsen-Bautista is of middling height and seemingly made of angles — sharp elbows, pointed chin, quick gesturing hands that are in constant motio…

Ahmed Delgado is a broad-shouldered woman whose hands tell her whole biography — thick calluses on her fingertips, ink stains in the whorls of her thumb, and…

Ahura Duong is a large man gone soft in the belly but still thick through the shoulders, with a close-cropped grey beard that he touches constantly in though…

…tham Flats, and a digital art wall that rotates through her personal portfolio. She is talkative and sharp, able to read what a client wants from how they sit down, a…

…ess. They assume depth. Isaak is using Kyle's violence as a personal rebrand. Before the crew, Isaak was a library aide at the Gray Zone Community Archive — one of t…

…rk composite-fiber work clothes, fingerless gloves, a craftsperson's apron with tools she actually uses. Her eyes have patterned irises in a swirling amber-and-black…

Aigul Guerrero is compact and precise in the way of someone who learned to work in confined spaces under pressure — her movements economical, her hands still…

…e got at thirty-two after winning her first major synthetic personhood case, a gift to herself she describes as 'wearing the victory.' Her hair is grown out natural a…

Aino Kjellberg has been walking the same eight-block stretch of Hamtramck Enclave for eleven years and knows it the way other people know their own bodies — …

…e physical world. When information needs to be collected in person, when dead drops need servicing, when a meeting requires the implicit suggestion that non-cooperati…

Aishwarya Jung came to GLMZ's edges seventeen years ago with twelve people and lost four of them to the journey. She arrived with nothing except a ferocious …

Aisosa Jaramillo-Sabbagh is the kind of person a room notices before they understand why. They're medium height with a runner's build that belies…

…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…

Ajani Castañeda is average height but with a presence that fills more space than the body accounts for. At 32, her face carries the layered heritage of gener…

Akachi Subramaniam is average height but with a presence that fills more space than the body accounts for. At 45, scars map his face like a transit diagram o…

Akachukwu Subramaniam-Venkatesh is the fastest swimmer the Boneyard Saints have ever had and the most frustrated. He can navigate the flooded ruins of Old Ha…

…g chart, which makes her simultaneously the most principled person in her building and the most dangerous to anyone running something off-book. She mentors junior com…

…e, and he has opinions about all of them. He is the kind of person who is beloved by strangers and slightly maddening to people close to him, because he extends his e…

Akemi Árnason-Mensah is stocky and solid, with hands that look like they were built for breaking things and a face that confirms it. At 45, her face carries …

…ssure — moments where the viewer feels the weight of a real person's situation. His work has been passed around on physical data-chips in the HPAZ and has recently st…

Akihiro Haugen-Baiseitov is a compact woman with deep brown skin and close-cropped natural hair she keeps pinned flat under a headset she almost never remove…

Akiko Dalgaard is a tall, angular girl caught permanently between two worlds — the pressed uniform and controlled expression of Axiom's scholarship track dur…

Akinwale Arakawa-Horváth are average height but with a presence that fills more space than the body accounts for. At 23, they have the kind of face that chan…

Akira Lindström 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 soft features t…

Akito Chakraborty-Ogawa is ninety years old if you ask him, eighty-eight if you read his records, and older than all of it if you sit with him for an hour. H…

Akoti Castañeda-Wickramasinghe is a compact man who seems to take up more space than his dimensions suggest — something about the way he moves through a work…

Aksel Fredriksen is a big man gone soft at the edges, with the kind of weathered dark-brown face that has accumulated sixty-four years of Geartown grime into…

Akshara Sigurdsson-Shimizu is athletic and fluid, the kind of body that suggests either dancer or fighter — and in GLMZ, the distinction is academic. At 45, …

Akua Srisai is young enough that she still surprises herself with her own capabilities, and old enough to be irritated by that. She's wiry and quick, with th…

Akwasi Seo is a large, slow-moving man who has been worn smooth by decades of hard weather, like driftwood. His face is broad and deeply seamed, brown skin w…

Ala Mukherjee is athletic and fluid, the kind of body that suggests either dancer or fighter — and in GLMZ, the distinction is academic. At 28, there's somet…

…text. He is not unfriendly — he will offer you tea from his personal supply and remember your name the next time you visit — but his real warmth is reserved for data:…

Alanalani Asomaning is lean and angular, all sharp edges and visible tension. At 59, his face carries the layered heritage of generations of diaspora mixing …

…manent-looking, like a boulder that has decided to become a person. Her dark skin is mapped with the small scars of a lifetime handling sharp metal, and her left arm…

Albrecht Lindström is twelve going on thirty-five, with the calculating eyes of someone who has been studying people for survival since he was old enough to …

Alejandra Holm-Somchai-Hossain is a heavyset woman with deep umber skin mapped by a constellation of self-applied subcutaneous luminescence — tiny biolumines…

Aleksander Huitzil-Salazar is the kind of woman whose presence in a room shifts the acoustics ��� people speak differently, sit straighter, choose their word…

Aleksandra Ionescu is tiny — barely 155 centimeters — and has been shrinking for decades, but she carries herself with a posture of such exact deliberateness…

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…

Aleli Tovar is a compact, precise woman with light brown skin, a shaved head that she freshens every third day with geometric razor work along the sides, and…

…ower to change much. She is technically brilliant and interpersonally awkward in ways she's actively working on. She has a tendency to present information in dense t…

Alero Thakur-Halverson is slight and precise, with medium-brown skin and natural hair she keeps in a large puff held back from her face with a band of blue p…

Alexei Villanueva-Tamale is a vast, slow-moving man whose bulk has softened from muscle to something more like sediment — layers of a life compressed into a …

…y of a PI. His work involves identity verification (is this person human or synthetic?), behavioral analysis (is this synthetic acting within its programming or has i…

Alhassan Zidane-Phommasack is a broad-shouldered woman with deep umber skin that has gone leathery at the knuckles from decades of hot water and chemical det…

…be somebody else, in another city, with another name — that person is officially dead, and Alia Yoon-Villanueva plans to keep it that way. He works as a fixer out of…

Alicia Venkatesh is a large man going soft at the middle in the way of someone who eats communally and never alone, with a full beard beginning to grey and h…

Alina Björnsdóttir is athletic and fluid, the kind of body that suggests either dancer or fighter — and in GLMZ, the distinction is academic. At 29, his expr…