The uplifted spiders of Kern’s World, led by Portia’s descendants, defeat the desperate human survivors of the ark ship Gilgamesh not by killing them but by infecting them with the same nanovirus that uplifted the spiders.
Yozo Oba, who has spent his life hiding behind a clown’s mask, ends up addicted to morphine and is committed to a mental hospital.
Stanley Yelnats and his friend Zero dig up the buried suitcase that the Warden has been searching for, and it turns out to belong to Stanley’s great-grandfather.
The biologist reaches the lighthouse and the Tower, encounters the Crawler writing words on the wall, and learns her husband, who went on the previous expedition, has been transformed.
Ye Wenjie’s message brought the Trisolarans, who are now sending a fleet to Earth that will arrive in about 400 years.
Emily dies and returns to her 12th birthday, but she cannot bear watching life go by so quickly.
Queenie Bligh, a white Englishwoman whose husband Bernard was away at war, gives birth to a mixed-race baby fathered by Michael Roberts, a Jamaican RAF airman.
The crew of the Endeavour explores the huge alien cylinder Rama as it passes through the solar system, but they never meet its builders.
Miss Marple reveals that the young dancer found dead in Colonel Bantry’s library was not Ruby Keene but a missing schoolgirl, Pamela Reeves, and that Ruby was killed separately.
