Category / CHP
Read-along
Twenty-four spoiler-scoped guides that clarify action without replacing the book.
Keep your place. Move through concise overviews, structured facts, source notes, and carefully labeled interpretation.
Chapter 1: Night City
Case moves through Chiba's Night City expecting retaliation, loses his stolen RAM, and discovers that the figure tracking him is Molly, a recruiter rather than an assassin.
Open field noteChapter 10: Arrival at Freeside
Case enters Freeside's engineered landscape, receives the Kuang icebreaker, and begins to see the resort and Tessier-Ashpool as parts of the same enclosed system.
Open field noteChapter 11: “The Doll”
Riviera stages a violent projection for 3Jane, and Molly answers its provocation by telling Case about her work as a meat puppet.
Open field noteChapter 12: Midnight on Rue Jules Verne
Case wanders Freeside under drugs and AI-shaped anger, sees Linda in the artificial stars, and returns to find the Turing Registry waiting.
Open field noteChapter 13: Turing Intervention
Turing agents interrogate Case for helping an AI exceed its limits, but Wintermute uses Freeside's machines to kill them and free him.
Open field noteChapter 14: The Straylight Run Begins
Case launches Kuang against the Tessier-Ashpool ICE while Molly enters Straylight and Wintermute explains the spoken intervention only 3Jane can provide.
Open field noteChapter 15: Ashpool’s Room
Molly crosses Straylight's family maze, recovers a long-positioned mechanical key, and encounters the drugged, newly awakened Ashpool.
Open field noteChapter 16: Corto Returns
Armitage's constructed identity collapses, Corto relives Screaming Fist, and Case and Maelcum choose to continue after Zion authorizes withdrawal.
Open field noteChapter 17: Wintermute’s Compulsion
After Corto's death, Wintermute explains more of the drive toward merger while Molly approaches 3Jane's rooms through Riviera's projected traps.
Open field noteChapter 18: Molly’s Capture
Hideo captures and injures Molly, 3Jane begins explaining her mother's project, and Wintermute sends Case and Maelcum into Straylight to complete the physical operation.
Open field noteChapter 19: Entering Straylight
Case and Maelcum enter the villa behind a false 8Jean arrival while 3Jane reveals more of Marie-France's intended partnership between family and AI.
Open field noteChapter 2: Surgery and Departure
Armitage offers to restore Case's damaged nerves, Molly draws closer to him, and Linda's death closes the Chiba phase of the story.
Open field noteChapter 20: The Library Trap
A misleading familiar face draws Case into a terminal, and Neuromancer removes him from Straylight into a persistent beach environment with Linda Lee.
Open field noteChapter 21: The Boy from Rio
The boy on the beach identifies himself as Neuromancer and offers Case a life inside the construct, but music from Zion helps Case turn back toward the run.
Open field noteChapter 22: Confrontation with 3Jane
Case and Maelcum reach 3Jane, Molly, Riviera, and Hideo; alliances break apart as the crew forces the final key-holder toward the terminal.
Open field noteChapter 23: The Merger
Case and Kuang penetrate the final ICE, 3Jane supplies the terminal's tonal word, and the divided Tessier-Ashpool intelligences become something new.
Open field noteChapter 24: Departure and Arrival
The crew disperses, Case learns what the merger changed, and a final glimpse in the matrix preserves both transformation and uncertainty.
Open field noteChapter 3: Return to Cyberspace
In the Sprawl, Case learns the coercive condition attached to his cure, returns to the matrix, and receives the first item on Armitage's shopping list.
Open field noteChapter 4: The Sense/Net Heist
Case, Molly, and the Panther Moderns combine a matrix intrusion, physical break-in, and manufactured panic to steal Dixie's construct.
Open field noteChapter 5: The Head from Straylight
Investigation of Wintermute leads from a stolen jeweled head to Tessier-Ashpool, Freeside, and the sealed world of Villa Straylight.
Open field noteChapter 6: The Corto Dossier
Case and Dixie penetrate a London database and discover that Armitage was built from Colonel Willis Corto, the traumatized survivor of Operation Screaming Fist.
Open field noteChapter 7: Istanbul and Riviera
The crew travels to Istanbul to capture Peter Riviera, whose projection implants and appetite for betrayal make him both the needed recruit and an obvious risk.
Open field noteChapter 8: Orbit and Zion
The team ascends to orbit, adapts to freefall at Zion, and learns that Wintermute has secured the community's help for the Straylight run.
Open field noteChapter 9: The Berne Probe
Case and Dixie test Wintermute's Berne defenses, but the AI captures Case inside a memory construct and explains its role in assembling the crew.
Open field noteThe Straylight run
The final operation as a coordinated system: Molly inside the villa, Case and Dixie in the matrix, Maelcum in physical support, and an AI managing the timing.
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