This isn't a chapter, but a survey covering all the main (and most minor) characters in Book 1, listed roughly in order of appearance. I've grouped some of them together, while others who have equally brief and minor parts are listed separately. The main reason for this is that I figured if you liked reading about, say, one of Saskia's game developer friends, you'd probably like reading about all of them.

Note, the poll is not to see which characters you liked the most. Some of them are pretty unlikeable! I'm just trying to get a sense of which characters you think were the most interesting or compelling.

Thanks for reading this far, and I'll be back next week with Chapter 1 of Book 2.