The End of Rainbow’s End

• Chapters 22->33• http://vrinimi.org/

rainbowsend.html#CHAPTER%2022

The Bicycle Attack

• Vaz establishes himself as a real Local Honcho by setting up his milnet to Braun and Mitsuri

• Juan and Miri wonder into a dead zone and impending danger

• Vaz attacks!!!

In the Cathedral

• Library infiltration crew sets up their stuff near nodes

• Miri escapes by falling down a hole…

• Miri decides to chase after Robert and leave Juan to his own devices

The Library Chooses

• The diversion escalates into an orgy of chaos

• Vaz pumps lies in the form of data back to Braun and Mitsuri

• The library reaches out towards the Greater Scooch-a-mout

You Can’t Ask Alice Anymore

• Alice’s JITT catches up to her as the contaminated box ‘pushes her over the edge’

• Bob glides into action• “...new affiliates, some of

them as capable as a human could ever be. And he'd found a special new friend, to boot.”

How-to-Survive-the-Next-Thirty-Minutes.pdf

• Rabbit’s last act with full power, deliver the survival pdf

• Miri unplugs the eye of the enemy

• C1 Saving Tommie • C2 Your beknighted

wearables• C3 What Alfred is up to• C4 What you can do to

help• C5 What’s in it for you

The Revocation Attack

• Car wants to take Xiu and Lena somewhere else but spot Thomas Parker’s outfit

• Vaz approaches complete success

• Rabbit invades milnet• Credit Suisse is

pulled seriously harming Rabbit

The Animal Model?

• Alfred never guessed Rabbit’s connection to Scooch-a-mout

• Rabbit continues to want to find out what Vaz is up to

• Rabbit tells Miri and Robert that the mice populations are the key to Alfred’s plans

Dr Xiang Takes Charge

• Alfred has faked the data, now tries to salvage his mice population

• Xiu plays Tiananmen Square with a passing auto

• Tommie is evacuated

When the Network Stops

• Mob breaks up as Dangerous Knowledge accepts defeat

• Absence of the network makes it hard for the library to maintain its integrity

• Forklift traps a lady

Bob Contemplates Nuclear Carpet-Bombing

• Bob’s group lands and takes control of all systems

• Analyst support community argue over weakness of network and whether or not they have been sullied

The Minimum Sufficient Response

• Miri and Robert stop mice arrays from being shipped out; right ones though?

• Robert looks for where his team setup the gadgets

• Gas starts making Robert ‘goofy’

• American response(Bob) cauterizes launching area, dashing Vaz’s plans

• Backup launcher found• Miri free mice array, talks

gibberish• Robert saves Miri from lava

doom

Freedom on a Very Long Leash

• Robert, Miri and Alice are all in hospital recovering from the ordeal

• Bob interviews his dad, Robert

• Miri isn’t going to be told how responsible Robert is for her mother’s meltdown

• Robert comforts Juan about Miri

• Robert and Juan perform their coop piece

The British Museum and the British Library

• Robert Gu is really worried that Miri is ok

• Blount liked the coop piece

• Huertas Librareome project stopped due to embarrassment

• Tommie gives Robert card with a library in it

The Missing Apostrophe• Sharif banished back to India• Robert gets a network sync-

ing job• Miri is bouncing around trying

to help Robert’s burnt nub• Miri is grateful for Robert

saving her from the lava• Bob is ‘out of touch’ and

‘making places glow in the dark’

• Robert confesses to Miri and begs forgiveness

• Miri breaks promise and reveals Lena is alive to Robert

• Epilogue: Miracles come true?

Questions

• Was the Rabbit’s promise to Gu sincere?• Would Gu have done it had he known Alice would be

hurt?• Is the Rabbit dead, alive, missing, incognito?• Besides Alice and Wonderland, what other imagery do

you see employed in RE?• Do you believe in the idea of the “Singularity?” Has

reading RE changed/formed your opinion?• If you could live longer by ‘augmenting’ yourself or by

uploading your brain into silicon would you?• Would you take JITT if you knew the risks?• What does the book’s title have to do with the subject

matter and plot?