Read Part I (Chapters 1-2)
Content Summary for Teachers
Chapter 1
Henry Dorsett Case sits at a bar in the dystopian Chiba City, Japan. The bar is grungy and as Case drinks his beer, he reminisces on the time he spent in cyberspace (also known as the matrix); now, unable to reach the console, he can only try to replicate the exhilarating feelings he had in the matrix by taking drugs or hoping for neurosurgery that could repair his nervous system. He currently works as a low-grade hustler in Chiba City.
Case has a flashback: we learn that he is twenty-four years old. At twenty-two, Case had been a “console cowboy,” a thief tapped into cyberspace, working on contracts for other thieves who...
