Health Control Laws, mandatory sterilization regulations, computer directed robot surgeons--the time is early in the twenty-first century, eighteen years after the bloody Health Riots, a time of turmoil, insurrection and revolt. It is also the time of the bladerunner, that shadowy procureer of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market.

Became the basis for the William S Burroughs screenplay of the same name.