where Joelle ends the novel
This asks where Joelle van Dyne stands when the novel's record stops: free, captured, or somewhere in between. It is contested because her final appearances leave her released yet still watched, with the separatists' interest in her unresolved.
Scenes
Adjudication
This crux has an adversarial ledger: Who Mailed the Samizdat. The per-reading verdicts are below.
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor fate cruxes (registered for the sighting count) | favored |
Discussed in
- IJ Book Club Ep. 47 (S3 Ep 14 by feed position; untitled beyond the numbering — feed blurb: Does anyone know?): The ER woman is Marathe argued in full, the left/right handedness code, Hal's secondhand childhood on the viewing-room floor, Mikey as the last addict interlude, and the A.D.A.'s ninth step (pp. ~954–964)
- IJ Lecture IV: The Year of Glad (Hardcore Literature) — the wraith orchestrates, Hal wraith-dosed with DMZ (and maybe shown the film), the too-late head-dig, and the AFR-victory missing year (pp. 795–end)
- an online forum — full-history archive digest