Estraven, the exiled Karhide politician who helped Genly Ai cross the ice, is shot by border guards while trying to sneak back into Karhide.

Juliana Frink reaches Hawthorne Abendsen, author of a banned novel in which the Allies won World War II, and learns that he wrote it using the I Ching.

Bob Arctor, an undercover narcotics agent assigned to spy on himself, has his brain destroyed by the drug Substance D.

Case, a burned-out hacker, helps the artificial intelligence Wintermute merge with its twin AI, Neuromancer, creating a new super-intelligence that spreads across the entire matrix.

June Iparis, a prodigy soldier of the Republic, discovers that the government killed her brother Metias, not the rebel boy Day.

Detective Rob Ryan solves the murder of twelve-year-old Katy Devlin: her sister Rosalind manipulated a young man into killing her.

Cinder, a cyborg mechanic in New Beijing, learns she is the lost Lunar Princess Selene.

America Singer survives a rebel attack on the palace and makes it into the Elite, the final six girls competing to marry Prince Maxon.

Bartleby, the copyist who answers every request with “I would prefer not to,” is sent to the Tombs prison after refusing to leave the office.

Henry DeTamble, who travels in time without control, is accidentally shot by Clare’s father and brother while they hunt deer, and he dies in Clare’s arms in the present.