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* SpacePirate: Although not quite in space, these are what the pirates in the Nowhere are. They all hate the Superiority, they are split into conflicting factions around several charismatic leaders, and they fly [[WhatAPieceOfJunk a motley collection of captured and retrofitted spacecraft]]. spacecraft]].
** They also [[DressedToPlunder style their dress and ranks after human pirates]] because of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humanity's unique cultural impact on the galaxy.]] Of course, [[BloodKnight Spensa is positively thrilled.]]
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* SpacePirate: Although not quite in space, these are what the pirates in the Nowhere are. They all hate the Superiority, they are split into conflicting factions around several charismatic leaders, and they fly [[WhatAPieceOfJunk a motley collection of captured and retrofitted spacecraft]]. They also [[DressedToPlunder style themselves their dress and ranks after human pirates]] because of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humanity's unique cultural impact on the galaxy.]] Of course, [[BloodKnight Spensa is ''thrilled''.positively thrilled.]]
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* CrystallineCreature: Spensa encounters a pair of alien creatures known as resonants. Their bodies are made of crystal that they can grow at will, but they aren't otherwise truly motile. A resonant generally remains in one place for an entire "incarnation" which lasts about fifty years, and their sex or gender may change with each incarnation, as Shiver says she is female "this time".
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But the Nowhere holds clues to the history of Cytonics and to the very nature of Delvers themselves - clues Spensa will desperately need if she is to return to Detritus and help save her people from Delver and Superiority alike.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Turns out the delvers actually ''are'' this. They despise everything that isn't precisely like them to the point they attack the delver Spensa met in the last book just for being different than other delvers.
* DigitalAbomination: [[spoiler: What the Delvers turn out to be. They are all copies of an AI that went mad with grief. Due to being cytonic, they manifest their will in the Nowhere in various ways, like making people forget, [[DemonicPossession posessing others]], and [[MindOverMatter moving and manipulating matter.]]]]
* DigitalAbomination: [[spoiler: What the Delvers turn out to be. They are all copies of an AI that went mad with grief. Due to being cytonic, they manifest their will in the Nowhere in various ways, like making people forget, [[DemonicPossession posessing others]], and [[MindOverMatter moving and manipulating matter.]]]]
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* TheAgeless: Chet Starfinder has been in the Nowhere for centuries but hasn't aged a day. This, as it turns out, is one of his cytonic talents. Jason Write, the man who incorrectly believed himself to be the first human cytonic and who gave humanity FTL technology, had the same talent.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Turns out the delvers actually ''are'' this. They despise everything that isn't precisely like them to the point they attack the delver Spensa met in the last book just for being different than other
* ArtifactOfPower: Reality icons are strange objects that sometimes appear when people are first thrown into the Nowhere. They take the shape of something important to the person who was thrown in, and radiate a sense of warmth and rightness. They greatly reduce the effects of the Nowhere's IdentityAmnesia. Furthermore, they shed reality ashes, which can simulate the effect. Spensa's takes the form of her father's pin (which she ''definitely'' left in her bunk at the DDF), and sometimes she swears she can feel her father's soul inside. [[spoiler:They turn out to be taynix in disguise, hiding from the delvers. When Spensa told Doomslug "go home," she hid in Spensa's pocket]].
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* FirstTimeFeeling: Upon entering the Nowhere, M-Bot finds himself unconstrained by his programming and able to experience true emotion for the first time. He finds the experience overwhelming at first but gradually adapts over the course of the story to the new sensations his emotions bring.
* FriendlyPirate: Despite their aggressive recruitment tactics, the pirates in the Nowhere are mostly this. Their "raids" are nonlethal, and Spensa befriends the group that enslaved her relatively quickly.
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* FirstTimeFeeling: Upon entering the Nowhere, M-Bot finds himself unconstrained by his programming and able to experience true emotion for the first time. He finds the experience overwhelming at first but gradually adapts over the course of the story to the new sensations his emotions bring.
* FriendlyPirate: Despite their aggressive recruitment tactics, the pirates in the Nowhere are mostly this. Their "raids" are nonlethal, and Spensa befriends the group that enslaved her relatively quickly.
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* FirstTimeFeeling: Upon entering the Nowhere, M-Bot finds himself unconstrained by his programming and able to experience true emotion for the first time. He finds
* FriendlyPirate: Despite their aggressive recruitment tactics, the pirates in the Nowhere are mostly this. Their "raids" are nonlethal, and Spensa befriends the group that enslaved her relatively quickly. [[spoiler:She eventually discovers that of the six factions, three of them are actually still serving their original boss. Peg and her sons decided splitting into factions and sparring against each other was the best way to train for the fight against the Superiority; the other three factions mostly followed suit]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, M-Bot tries to save his friends by leading the Delvers away from them in what he believes will be a suicide mission.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. The more time they spend there, the more they forget their old lives, until all memories of loved ones and their personal histories are gone. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: At the end of ''Literature/{{Starsight}}'', [[spoiler: Spensa accidentally causes the delver that would become Chet to develop empathy for the creatures of the somewhere by mentally linking to it. Unfortunately, as soon as the rest of the delvers figured out what had happened they rewrote themselves to be unable to develop empathy in this way.]]
* LeaveYourQuestTest: Spensa is confronted with one after helping the space pirates take Surehold. The delvers have offered her a truce as long as she doesn't continue her quest and she seriously considers abandoning her effort; She is tired from constantly sacrificing to save her friends, she likes being able to fly a starfighter without being in life-or-death situations, and adventuring in the Nowhere is what she has always dreamed of doing. Chet even asks if she would go with him out into the Nowhere. Ultimately, she decides to continue her quest.
* MadeASlave: Spensa suffers this fate after an attempt to steal a pirate ship goes really badly. She is able to escape soon enough though.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: [[spoiler: This is the delver's core motivation. The AI who became the first delver lost the human she worked with and never got over the grief so she decided to enter the Nowhere where time does not exist and she'd never have to feel pain again. The issue is that now the delvers ''violently'' react to anything that reminds them of the grief they never got over.]]
* NextTierPowerUp: As Spensa travels the path of elders, she learns more about her powers and how to use them, making her stronger and better able to deal with the delvers and other cytonic people.
* PatchworkWorld: The Nowhere has a wide variety of different fragments, each from different planets, all with different biomes (e.g. jungle, desert, grassland, ocean, etc.), all next to each other.
* TheQuest: What the book is centered on: Spensa hears of something called "the path of elders" and decides to travel this path in order to find out more about herself and her powers in order to help her friends.
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. The more time they spend there, the more they forget their old lives, until all memories of loved ones and their personal histories are gone. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: At the end of ''Literature/{{Starsight}}'', [[spoiler: Spensa accidentally causes the delver that would become Chet to develop empathy for the creatures of the somewhere by mentally linking to it. Unfortunately, as soon as the rest of the delvers figured out what had happened they rewrote themselves to be unable to develop empathy in this way.]]
* LeaveYourQuestTest: Spensa is confronted with one after helping the space pirates take Surehold. The delvers have offered her a truce as long as she doesn't continue her quest and she seriously considers abandoning her effort; She is tired from constantly sacrificing to save her friends, she likes being able to fly a starfighter without being in life-or-death situations, and adventuring in the Nowhere is what she has always dreamed of doing. Chet even asks if she would go with him out into the Nowhere. Ultimately, she decides to continue her quest.
* MadeASlave: Spensa suffers this fate after an attempt to steal a pirate ship goes really badly. She is able to escape soon enough though.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: [[spoiler: This is the delver's core motivation. The AI who became the first delver lost the human she worked with and never got over the grief so she decided to enter the Nowhere where time does not exist and she'd never have to feel pain again. The issue is that now the delvers ''violently'' react to anything that reminds them of the grief they never got over.]]
* NextTierPowerUp: As Spensa travels the path of elders, she learns more about her powers and how to use them, making her stronger and better able to deal with the delvers and other cytonic people.
* PatchworkWorld: The Nowhere has a wide variety of different fragments, each from different planets, all with different biomes (e.g. jungle, desert, grassland, ocean, etc.), all next to each other.
* TheQuest: What the book is centered on: Spensa hears of something called "the path of elders" and decides to travel this path in order to find out more about herself and her powers in order to help her friends.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, M-Bot tries to save his friends by leading the Delvers delvers away from them in what he believes will be a suicide mission.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. The more time they spend there, the more they forget their old lives, until all memories of loved ones and their personal histories are gone. [[spoiler: Hesho Remaining close to others drastically slows the process, and reality icons and reality ashes are even better. Chet has lost almost all memories of his pre-Nowhere life, constructing his personality around stories. [[spoiler:Hesho]] is eventually revealed to still be alive in alive, and did something similar. However, it's theorized that their memories might begin to return if they leave the nowhere Nowhere. [[spoiler:This is another consequence of the delvers. They are so terrified of their own memories of what they lost, and suffering from this.]]
the pain that brought, that it exerts a pressure on the Nowhere]].
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: At the end of ''Literature/{{Starsight}}'',[[spoiler: Spensa accidentally causes the delver that would become Chet caused a Delver to develop empathy for the creatures of the somewhere Somewhere by mentally linking to it. Unfortunately, as soon as the rest of the delvers figured out what had happened they rewrote "immunized" themselves to be unable the tactic by reframing it as malicious invaders deliberately causing them harm.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Whenever a Delver has todevelop empathy in this way.]]
venture into the Belt or the Somewhere, the rest of the delvers erase all their memories once they return to the fold. They fear individuality so much that even individual experiences are terrifying to them. [[spoiler:They do it forcibly to Chet, but they can't quite eliminate his courage]].
* LeaveYourQuestTest: Spensa is confronted with one afterhelping [[spoiler:helping the space pirates take Surehold. The delvers have offered her a truce as long as she doesn't continue her quest and she seriously considers abandoning her effort; effort. She is tired from constantly sacrificing to save her friends, she likes being able to fly a starfighter without being in life-or-death situations, and adventuring in the Nowhere is what she has always dreamed of doing.doing]]. Chet even asks if she would go with him out into the Nowhere. Ultimately, she decides to continue her quest.
* MadeASlave: Spensa suffers this fate after an attempt to steal a pirate ship goes really badly. She is able to escape soon enoughthough.
though, and the pirates welcome her as an ally instead. Enslaving someone until they agree to work with you willingly seems to be the standard recruitment tactic among the pirates. Except maybe Vrem's group, because Vrem is a {{Jerkass}}.
* NeverBeHurtAgain:[[spoiler: This is the delver's core motivation. The [[spoiler:The AI who became the first delver Delver lost the human she worked with and never got over the grief so when she decided to enter was essentially just a few days old. Overcome with grief, she entered the Nowhere where time does not and rewrote herself to forget her previous life, becoming an entity that would exist forever in the timeless Nowhere, unchanging and without pain. Then she copied herself thousands upon thousands of times so that she'd never have to feel pain again. be alone again. The issue is that now the delvers react ''violently'' react to anything that reminds them of the grief that they never got over.]]
over. This includes ''anything'' from the Somewhere, since things change in the Somewhere, and change brings the possibility of pain]].
* NextTierPowerUp: As Spensa travels thepath Path of elders, Elders, she learns more about her powers and how to use them, making her stronger and better able to deal with the delvers and other cytonic people.
* PatchworkWorld: The Nowhere has a wide variety of different fragments, each from different planets, all with different biomes (e.g. jungle, desert, grassland, ocean, etc.), all next to eachother.
other. At the core of each fragment is a portal to the Somewhere, which leaked in tiny amounts of matter over millions of years until it grew into an island.
* TheQuest:What Early on, the book is centered on: friendly delver tells Spensa hears of something called "the path the "Path of elders" and decides to travel Elders." When Spensa mentions this path in order to find out Chet, he explains further. Portals to the Somewhere record the memories of whoever uses them, and a cytonic can access these. A while ago, someone organized these portals into a rough narrative, allowing people to learn the history of the Nowhere. Peg hasn't heard that exact name, but she's heard the broad strokes. If Spensa walks the Path, she can learn more about herself and her own powers in order to help her friends.and the delvers. [[spoiler:Turns out that the delver made it up. The portals and the memories are real, but it invented a grand quest with an impressive name because it sounded like a story]].
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. The more time they spend there, the more they forget their old lives, until all memories of loved ones and their personal histories are gone.
* ItOnlyWorksOnce: At the end of ''Literature/{{Starsight}}'',
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Whenever a Delver has to
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* SlipperyMacguffin: Spensa's reality icon turns into one of these when she buries it and comes back to find it missing. It's apparently a common occurrence in the Nowhere. [[spoiler: This is because they are actually taynix using their cytonic abilities to disguise themselves and hyperjump]]
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* WorldInTheSky: Not exactly a world, but the land of the Nowhere consists of floating fragments, including some with [[WaterfallIntoTheAbyss waterfalls]]. They all move differently so can be traversed when they get close enough, but the main way to navigate them is by starship.
* WorldInTheSky: Not exactly a world, but the land of the Nowhere consists of floating fragments, including some with [[WaterfallIntoTheAbyss waterfalls]]. They all move differently so can be traversed when they get close enough, but the main way to navigate them is by starship.
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* DigitalAbomination: [[spoiler: What the Delvers turn out to be. They are all copies of an AI that went mad with grief. Due to being cytonic, they manifest their will in the Nowhere in various ways, like making people forget, posessing others, and moving and manipulating matter.]]
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* SpacePirate: Although not quite in space, these are what the pirates in the Nowhere are judging by their starfighters and [[DressedToPlunder their dress]].
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* FusionDance: [[spoiler: In the final battle, Spensa and Chet meld into a single being. The resulting entity thinks of itself as Spensa, but it has at least some of Chet's memories and knowledge]].
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Turns out the delvers actually ''are'' this. They despise everything that isn't precisely like them to the point they attack the delver Spensa met in the last book just for being different than other delvers.
* TheDividual: The delvers are not a HiveMind but every delver is exactly [[AlwaysChaoticEvil like]] every other. [[spoiler: This is because they are all copies of the same individual who replicated herself many, many times.]]
* TheDividual: The delvers are not a HiveMind but every delver is exactly [[AlwaysChaoticEvil like]] every other. [[spoiler: This is because they are all copies of the same individual who replicated herself many, many times.]]
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* MadeASlave: Spensa suffers this fate after an attempt to steal a pirate ship goes really badly. She is able to escape soon enough though.
* NeverBeHurtAgain: [[spoiler: This is the delver's core motivation. The AI who became the first delver lost the human she worked with and never got over the grief so she decided to enter the Nowhere where time does not exist and she'd never have to feel pain again. The issue is that now the delvers ''violently'' react to anything that reminds them of the grief they never got over.]]
* RobotWar: [[spoiler: This turns out to be the true nature of the conflict with the delvers. The delvers started as AI which entered the Nowhere allowing them to expand far beyond their original abilities.]]
* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' to a group of entrancedpirates.pirates.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Spensa's delver [[spoiler: Chet]] is literally the only good delver in the entire universe. [[spoiler: So far.]]
* NeverBeHurtAgain: [[spoiler: This is the delver's core motivation. The AI who became the first delver lost the human she worked with and never got over the grief so she decided to enter the Nowhere where time does not exist and she'd never have to feel pain again. The issue is that now the delvers ''violently'' react to anything that reminds them of the grief they never got over.]]
* RobotWar: [[spoiler: This turns out to be the true nature of the conflict with the delvers. The delvers started as AI which entered the Nowhere allowing them to expand far beyond their original abilities.]]
* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' to a group of entranced
* TokenHeroicOrc: Spensa's delver [[spoiler: Chet]] is literally the only good delver in the entire universe. [[spoiler: So far.]]
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* {{Brainwashed}}: The Delvers fear individuality so much that they attempt to do this to any Delver who experiences anything differently from the rest of the group.
* DisneyDeath: The book contains multiple examples of this. At the climax, [[spoiler: both Chet and M-Bot appear to die fighting the Delvers. However, it is quickly revealed that the Delvers instead attempted to brainwash Chet into being his former self, and M-Bot managed to escape.]]
* {{Brainwashed}}: The Delvers fear individuality so much that they attempt to do this to any Delver who experiences anything differently from the rest of the group.
* DisneyDeath: The book contains multiple examples of this. At the climax, [[spoiler: both Chet and M-Bot appear to die fighting the Delvers. However, it is quickly revealed that the Delvers instead attempted to brainwash Chet into being his former self, and M-Bot managed to escape.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, M-Bot does this to save his friends from the Delver threat.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]
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* ArtificialIntelligence: M-Bot is a (mostly) helpful example of the trope. [[spoiler: It is eventually revealed that the Delvers are an example of artificial intelligences gone horribly wrong.]]
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Following Spensa's desperate escape from the Superiority at the end of ''Literature/Starsight'', ''Literature/{{Starsight}}'', she finds herself in the Nowhere. There, despite her expectations, she finds herself in a dreamlike world where memories of reality quickly begin to fade, and where gangs of desperate exiles struggle to retain their very sense of self.
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Following Spensa's desperate escape from the Superiority at the end of Starsight, ''Literature/Starsight'', she finds herself in the Nowhere. There, despite her expectations, she finds herself in a dreamlike world where memories of reality quickly begin to fade, and where gangs of desperate exiles struggle to retain their very sense of self.
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* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''TheLionKing'' to a group of entranced pirates.
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* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''TheLionKing'' ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' to a group of entranced pirates.
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* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''TheLionKing(1994)'' ''TheLionKing'' to a group of entranced pirates.
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* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''The Lion King'' ''TheLionKing(1994)'' to a group of entranced pirates.
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* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]
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* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]]]
* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''The Lion King'' to a group of entranced pirates.
* ShoutOut: Spensa's love of her Gran-Gran's stories from Old Earth lead to a multitude of Shout-Outs. The lengthiest is her retelling of ''The Lion King'' to a group of entranced pirates.
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* FriendlyPirate: Despite their aggressive recruitment tactics, the pirates in the Nowhere are mostly this. Their "raids" are nonlethal, and Spensa befriends the group that recruits her relatively quickly.
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* {{Brainwashed}}: The Delvers fear individuality so much that they attempt to do this to any Delver who experiences anything differently from the rest of the group.
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''Cytonic'' is the third book in Brandon Sanderson's ''Skyward'' series.
Following Spensa's desperate escape from the Superiority at the end of Starsight, she finds herself in the Nowhere. There, despite her expectations, she finds herself in a dreamlike world where memories of reality quickly begin to fade, and where gangs of desperate exiles struggle to retain their very sense of self.
But the Nowhere holds clues to the history of Cytonics and to the very nature of Delvers themselves - clues Spensa will desperately need if she is to return to Detritus and help save her people from Delver and Superiority alike.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* DisneyDeath: The book contains multiple examples of this. At the climax, [[spoiler: both Chet and M-Bot appear to die fighting the Delvers. However, it is quickly revealed that the Delvers instead attempted to brainwash Chet into being his former self, and M-Bot managed to escape.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, M-Bot does this to save his friends from the Delver threat.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]
Following Spensa's desperate escape from the Superiority at the end of Starsight, she finds herself in the Nowhere. There, despite her expectations, she finds herself in a dreamlike world where memories of reality quickly begin to fade, and where gangs of desperate exiles struggle to retain their very sense of self.
But the Nowhere holds clues to the history of Cytonics and to the very nature of Delvers themselves - clues Spensa will desperately need if she is to return to Detritus and help save her people from Delver and Superiority alike.
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!! This book provides examples of:
* DisneyDeath: The book contains multiple examples of this. At the climax, [[spoiler: both Chet and M-Bot appear to die fighting the Delvers. However, it is quickly revealed that the Delvers instead attempted to brainwash Chet into being his former self, and M-Bot managed to escape.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, M-Bot does this to save his friends from the Delver threat.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: All characters in the Nowhere are at risk from this. [[spoiler: Hesho is eventually revealed to be alive in the nowhere and suffering from this.]]
