The Bladerunner Author:Alan Edward Nourse In 2014 seventeen-year-old Billy Gimp risks great danger as a procurer of illegal medical supplies for a skilled surgeon determined to provide health care for people considered unqualified for legal medical aid. Health Control Laws, mandatory sterilization regulations, computer directed robot surgeons--the time is early in the twenty-first centu... more »ry, 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.« less