From the wiki:

Her metabolism and reflexes are also artificially heightened, with the tracery of electronic circuitry visible beneath certain areas of her skin , such as near her shoulders.

from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Millions

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Is that true? And where is it mentioned if so?

I just finished re-reading Neuro and I do not remember that. I'll look for it when I get home, but I suspect it is something that carried over from someones screenplay.

Indeed I got thru CZ, Neuro, and finished MLO just last night. I haven't checked Burning Chrome, yet.

It seemed like something from somewhere not the Books of The Host, since I can't imagine Teh Gibz failing to mention such a thing more than once in the books.

Thanks, Boog, at least I know it's not just me. :-)

Yeah, pretty sure it's not in there. I searched the text for "cicuitry" and "shoulder" separately ("circuitry" only occurs 7 times in the text. Go figure) and neither word came up in relation to a description of Molly, as far as I could tell. I was skimming.

This is from "Johnny Mnemonic." Page 19 of the Ace paperback. Fight on the Killing Floor's just started..

quote:

She'd removed her leather jacket and boots; her t-shirt was sleeveless, faint telltales of Chiba City circuitry traced along her thin arms. Her leather jeans gleamed under the floods. She began to dance.

Good catch. Interesting that (from what I found/remember) it never comes up again as a detail. Maybe the "traces" disappear? Or do so as Chiba City technique gets better?

Maybe Gibson thought it was cheesy or something and decided to omit it. Hoping everyone would just forget. So now it's one of those sci-fi anomalies, like the Klingon forehead ridges.

Or maybe Gibson forgot about it. I get the impression he doesn't re-read his own stuff once it's "out there." When he decided to re-use her character, he could have just gone off his incomplete memories of her.

Or maybe in the time of JM, her surgery(ies?) was still fairly new. Perhaps her skin, whether her own or grafts, hadn't fully grown over the worked on areas. A few years later that would have all healed over.
The in-universe possibilities are endless really.

Also, not sure at what point you made the typo, but if you searched for "cicuitry" you weren't gonna turn up much.

Oh, I typed it correctly *when* I did the search...

Your third paragraph is my favorite theory, actually.

Maybe he just didn't want to repeat himself unnecessarily. Y'now: OK, it's Molly, she;s hyped way bad, we know it. Razor nails popping out now and then and picosecond reflexes are enough, I suppose.

He was still feeling out and learning his world in Johnny, by Neuromancer he had been there for awhile and tightened it's ragged edges.

Yeah I totally get that whole fact that Molly is overhyped. She's your typical anti-hero ass kicking cyborg ninja. A truer adaptation would play that whole point down, make Molly seem a bit less standout from the crowd. You'd think with all the concealment and such she'd just be like any other woman on the streets of Chiba.

Linda however.. now Linda you could spot in a crowd a mile away, I always felt she never fitted in Chiba city, her place was the arcade which I think made her more a child in a very adult world.. one that she couldn't survive in.