Ryland Grace sends the beetle probes carrying the cure for the sun-dimming Astrophage back to Earth, then turns his ship around to save his alien friend Rocky, whose crew and ship are in danger.

Dana Franklin, a Black woman from 1976 pulled back in time to a Maryland plantation to save her white ancestor Rufus Weylin, finally kills Rufus when he tries to rape her.

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.