Three years later... Times change and people change. Now, Juno is running the corporation that Roi built, trading in software and data in the cutthroat corporate world of the near future. Topo has (almost literally) dropped off the face of the Earth, and Juno is getting anxious to find him. Enter the Grey Lensman, a small-time software pirate who thinks he knows where Topo can be found. He recruits a trio of muscleheaded musicians called the Hotboys to help him find the infamous Mole that destroyed Roi's data base.

Even if Topo can survive Roi's ICE (Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics), he must still try to rescue Juno. No easy task, as Roi has actually wiped her entire mind and stored it in his data banks.

Bad Dreams is the story of one man's quest for a free mind and a free life. Topo is a juggler, one of the players in a game of dueling body images. He seems to care more for the interior world of the Playing Field than for the "real world" of corporate greed and human emotion. But when Juno, a former lover, becomes caught up in the "real world,"only Topo can save her.