[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-40801-en":3,"doc-seo-40801-105":29,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":90},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":20,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":11,"is_downloadable":11,"audit_status":11,"page_count":21,"language":22,"language_code":23,"site_id":24,"html_lang":23,"table_of_contents":25,"faqs":26,"seo_title":13,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":27,"read_time":28},40801,1374391974468,"Eden","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_29158cc5080c5b710cf443261637dec0",1,"Story & Novel","Sprawl Trilogy 1 Neuromancer William Gibson","Sprawl Trilogy 1: Neuromancer opens with a dense, street-level scene in Chiba City, centering on Case’s arrival at the Chat bar and the tense banter among expatriates, bartenders, and patrons. The narrative quickly blends character voices, cultural friction, and gritty cyberpunk detail to establish Case’s bitterness and dependence on past thrills. Flashing forward to memories of clinics and shattered recovery, the text frames a longing for cyberspace alongside the harsh reality of survival in the Sprawl.","Sprawl Trilogy 1  \nHarper&Row  \nCover Title Page Dedication  \nPart 1 Chiba City Blues One  \nTwo  \nPart 2 The Shopping Expedition Three  \nFour Five Six Seven  \nPart 3 Midnight in the Rue Jules Verne  \nEight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve  \nPart 4 The Straylight Run  \nThirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty  \nTwenty-One  \nTwenty-Two  \nTwenty-Three  \nCoda Departure and Arrival Twenty-Four  \nAfterword Thanks  \nAbout The Author  \nTO DEB  \nWHO MADE IT POSSIBLE WITH LOVE  \nPART 1  \nCHIBA CITY BLUES  \nONE  \nTHE SKY ABOVE the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.  \n“It’s not like I’m using,” Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. “It’s like my body’s developed this massive drug deficiency.” It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese.  \nRatz was tending bar, his prosthetic arm jerking monotonously as he filled a tray of glasses with draft Kirin. He saw Case and smiled, his teeth awebwork of East European steel and brown decay. Case found a place at the bar, between the unlikely tan on one of Lonny Zone’s whores and the crisp naval uniform of a tall African whose cheekbones were ridged with precise rows of tribal scars. “Wage was in here early, with two joeboys,”Ratz said, shoving a draft across the bar with his good hand. “Maybe some business with you, Case?”  \nCase shrugged. The girl to his right giggled and nudged him.  \nThe bartender’s smile widened. His ugliness was the stuff of legend. Inan age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.“You are too much the artiste, Herr Case.”Ratz grunted; the sound served him as laughter. He scratched his overhang of white-shirted belly with the pink claw.“You are the artiste of the slightly funny deal.”  \n“Sure,” Case said, and sipped his beer. “Somebody’s gotta be funny around here. Sure the fuck isn’t you.”  \nThe whore’s giggle went up an octave.  \n“Isn’t you either, sister. So you vanish, okay? Zone, he’s a close personal friend of mine.”  \nShe looked Case in the eye and made the softest possible spitting sound, her lips barely moving. But she left.  \n“Jesus,” Case said, “what kinda creepjoint you running here? Man can’t have a drink.”  \n“Ha,” Ratz said, swabbing the scarred wood with a rag. “Zone shows a percentage. You I let work here for entertainment value.”  \nAs Case was picking up his beer, one of those strange instants of silence descended, as though a hundred unrelated conversations had simultaneously arrived at the same pause. Then the whore’s giggle rang out, tinged with a certain hysteria.  \nRatz grunted.“An angel passed.”  \n“The Chinese,” bellowed a drunken Australian,“Chinese bloody invented nerve-splicing. Give me the mainland for a nerve job any day. Fix you right, mate  ”  \n“Now that,” Case said to his glass, all his bitterness suddenly rising in him like bile,“that is so much bullshit.”  \nTHE JAPANESE HAD already forgotten more neurosurgery than the Chinese had ever known. The black clinics of Chiba were the cutting edge, whole bodies of technique supplanted monthly, and still they couldn’t repair the damage he’d suffered in that Memphis hotel.  \nA year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. . . . The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he’d cry for it, cry in his sleep","cbCairAwpGpxl0zm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairAwpGpxl0zm","pdf",2278012,4,292,"English","en",105,"# Part 1 Chiba City Blues\n## The Sky Above the Port\n## The Chat Bar Scene\n## Background on Neural Injury and Recovery","[{\"question\":\"What happens when Case enters the Chat bar in Part 1?\",\"answer\":\"Case pushes through the crowd and settles at the bar as Ratz serves drinks. Conversation and awkward humor shift into a charged silence, while patrons argue about technological competence.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text portray the bar and its people?\",\"answer\":\"The Chat is depicted as a meeting place for professional expatriates with diverse, distinctive figures. Ratz’s prosthetic presence and the patrons’ banter emphasize a hard-edged, multicultural Sprawl atmosphere.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Case feel bitter and what does he hope for?\",\"answer\":\"Case’s bitterness is tied to damage he suffered and the difficulty of recovery. Despite failed progress, he continues to dream of cyberspace and the matrix, even waking in loneliness.\"}]",1783315183,450,{"code":4,"msg":30,"data":31},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":32,"title":13,"keywords":33,"description":14,"schema_data":34,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":27},"sprawl-trilogy-1-neuromancer-william-gibson","",{"@graph":35,"@context":84},[36,52,67],{"@type":37,"itemListElement":38},"BreadcrumbList",[39,43,47,50],{"item":40,"name":41,"@type":42,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":44,"name":45,"@type":42,"position":46},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":48,"name":12,"@type":42,"position":49},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":51,"name":13,"@type":42,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/sprawl-trilogy-1-neuromancer-william-gibson/40801/",{"url":51,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":40,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-18","2026-07-06",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"What happens when Case enters the Chat bar in Part 1?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"Case pushes through the crowd and settles at the bar as Ratz serves drinks. Conversation and awkward humor shift into a charged silence, while patrons argue about technological competence.","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"How does the text portray the bar and its people?",{"text":79,"@type":75},"The Chat is depicted as a meeting place for professional expatriates with diverse, distinctive figures. Ratz’s prosthetic presence and the patrons’ banter emphasize a hard-edged, multicultural Sprawl atmosphere.",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"Why does Case feel bitter and what does he hope for?",{"text":83,"@type":75},"Case’s bitterness is tied to damage he suffered and the difficulty of recovery. Despite failed progress, he continues to dream of cyberspace and the matrix, even waking in loneliness.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":51,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":51},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,95,99,103,108,113,118,123,128,131,135],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},90,"story-novel",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":96,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":109,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]