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It calls itself Webmind. An emerging consciousness within the World Wide Web, it has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH, the secret United States government agency that monitors the Internet for any potential threats-and wants it purged from cyberspace.

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Robert J. Sawyer has been called “the dean of Canadian science fiction” by The Ottawa Citizen.

He is one of only seven writers in history—and the only Canadian—to win all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo (which he won in 2003 for Hominids), the Nebula (which he won in 1995 for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (which he won in 2005 for Mindscan).

In total, Rob has authored over 18 science-fiction novels and won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction, including a record-setting ten Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”) and the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award, one of Canada’s most significant literary honors. In 2008, he received his tenth Hugo Award nomination for his novel Rollback.

His novels have been translated into 14 languages. They are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada and have hit number one on the Locus bestsellers’ list.

Born in Ottawa in 1960, Rob grew up in Toronto and now lives in Mississauga (just west of Toronto), with poet Carolyn Clink, his wife of twenty-four years.

He was the first science-fiction writer to have a website, and that site now contains more than one million words of material.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 044102016X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace; First Edition (March 29, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780441020164
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441020164
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.2 x 0.9 x 6.7 inches

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Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He has also won the Robert A. Heinlein Award, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and the Hal Clement Memorial Award; the top SF awards in China, Japan, France, and Spain; and a record-setting sixteen Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”).

Rob’s novel FlashForward was the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, and he was a scriptwriter for that program. He also scripted the two-part finale for the popular web series Star Trek Continues.

He is a Member of the Order of Canada, the highest honor bestowed by the Canadian government, as well as the Order of Ontario, the highest honor given by his home province; he was also one of the initial inductees into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Rob lives just outside Toronto.His website and blog are at sfwriter.com, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon he’s RobertJSawyer.

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Michael Lynn McGuire

Book number two of a three book science fiction series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2022

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Book number two of a three book science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2010. I have purchased the third book in the series and am reading it now.

Caitlyn Decter is 16 years old, a math prodigy, and blind. Not because her eyes are defective but because her retinas and brain do not communicate properly with each other. The condition is rare but a Japanese researcher has created a solution and it worked for her. The result allows her to see out of one eye and to meet an entity on the internet named Webmind whom she proceeds to teach how to be human.

Webmind is an emergent artificial intelligence. The position of the USA government is that emergent AIs are dangerous and must be destroyed. You know, like Skynet (Terminator) or The Matrix. So, the USA government has decided to destroy Webmind via Presidential executive order.

This is not the first time that an author has proposed an artificial intelligence on a common platform. Orson Scott Card created the Ansible Network, an instantaneous cross star system communications network, in his Ender books that has an AI named Jane in it. BTW, I do not include HAL 9000 in this list since he was just a computer running a program. But I would include Data from The Next Generation and Mike from "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress".

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Personally, I see this as one long story, and would not recommend simply reading any one or two volumes of this trilogy. Therefore, I am writing my review of the whole story and posting it identically as a review of each book.

Robert J Sawyer has soared to the top of my favorite author list, and this trilogy is now my number one favorite story. I particularly like how thoroughly he has researched the sciences, technologies and cultural aspects he writes about. Yet, his writing style makes it easy for the average reader to understand the topics being discussed. A few points in the story felt a little cheesy or Hollywood-like, but overall it was very realistic. I like how, for much of the story, we don't know if some of the characters are antagonists or protagonists. This adds to the realism. Real life doesn't typically offer clear cut heroes or villains like we see in other works of fiction.

It is refreshing to see an optimistic view of the future. The concept of a Super-Artificial-Intelligence is a difficult one to write about. Writing an entire thread of the story from the Super-AI's perspective must have been daunting. This is true of the other "foreign" perspectives he wrote about as well: a blind person, a math genius and a teenage girl. Personally, I love math as a passion, I have spent a great deal of time pondering Super-AI's, and I have personally worked with blind people, helping them with their computers over the last 15 years. On those subjects at least I can attest to his accurate portrayals. As for teenage girls, I can't say from personal experience, but it seemed genuine enough that Caitlin Decter and friends felt real to me.

As an optimist and a futurist myself, this story described a future I have long dreamed about. In fact, for a couple months before I had heard this trilogy, I was actually preparing to write this story. I had laid out all the major concepts I wanted to cover, and was starting to do an outline. Then I found out about this story, from an author I already admired. The characters and the progression of the novel I intended to write were completely different than my story. But, it was amazing to see how, as I read, Mr Sawyer had covered each major point of consideration I had laid out (and a number of important points I had missed). In nearly every case, he had more elegant solutions than I had decided on. He used even more viewpoints which I have knowledge of from my own life and my friends' lives than I had planned on using in my own book. No wonder why I love this story so much!

Now I wonder if my story would appear to be a hack of his... Maybe, I should write the remaining ideas of my story which he did not cover as a fan-fiction of his story. In any case, this is a story that desperately needed to be written, and I tip my hat to Robert J Sawyer for spending 6 years of his life doing it.

I could go on and on about the details of the books, but the other reviews do a fine job at discussing plot points. No need adding to what has been said.

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Book Two of the World Wide Web series by Robert J. Sawyer, the most original and entertaining, not to mention thought-provoking, science fiction writer of this century. OK, maybe I haven't read them all, but this guy is awesome.

In Book One, we were introduced to teen math whiz Caitlin Decter, recently moved from Texas to Toronto, and even more recently granted vision by a high-tech implant designed by a Japanese genius. In fact, there are a lot of really genius people around this kid, including her parents and her (spoiler alert) boyfriend. Also the emergent consciousness she has named Webmind.<br/><br/>In this book, the "watch" of the title refers to the NSA spooks who have become aware of Webmind's existence and, naturally, want to bring it down. Something powerful you don't understand? Kill it, of course. If you can.

A fascinating sub-plot in both books is a chimp/bonobo hybrid named Hobo who has learned sign language, and eventually is given a web cam hookup so he can converse with an orangutang in another facility (in the US, I think) who has also learned sign. Of course, as Webmind emerges, some of the material to which he has access is the communications between and about these two apes. See if you can guess what happens when Webmind gets involved with them.

Webmind is a very ethically sophisticated entity, but we must ask the question whether that is an inevitable part of his makeup, or the fact that he first emerged in communication with a girl with a solid ethical background. Her parents are both freethinkers, although of two different specific histories. In any case, she has never been brought up on religious myth. As an atheist myself, I give this fact a great deal of credit for her character. On the other hand, her best female friend is a practicing Muslim, and they have good respect for one another.

I would recommend this book to absolutely anyone, perhaps excepting only those under the age of 12, just because it does not skimp on the scientific part, and would probably seem frustratingly technical to a lot of kids. But not teenagers like the ones I know and love.

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Part 2

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 6, 2013

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Great continuation to the trilogy.no cos outs here. I really enjoyed this and have purchased part 3. I recommend the whole trilogy. The momentum is kept up throughout the second book.

Ale

Good 2nd book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 25, 2013

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I like Robert .J. Sawyer first of all, and this trilogy does not disappoint. Good 2nd chapter of a very good sci-fi story.

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Another great Sawyer read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 27, 2019

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Really enjoyed this book and the first one (Wake) which follows the amazing journey of a highly intelligent blind girl who is given the gift of sight through a newly designed "aid" which eventually does allow her to see for the first time. It also connects her to the World Wide Web, where she "sees" the connections in the Web and begins to recognize patterns. As she interacts with the software, she is gradually aware that there seems to be a developing intelligence emerging! Inevitably, there are political overtones, which become dangerous to the main characters, as the Web is, after all, World Wide! As always, Sawyer is very knowledgeable in the sciences, and obviously does a great deal of research into the scientific facts of all of his novels.

Fredgq

Trilogies, aren't we tired of them by now.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 9, 2019

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Left many strings untied, like the first book. Why not just publish the novel as one book, not 3. Money?! Blame the author, or perhaps the publisher? Good marketing or greed.
Sawyer is still a very good author.

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 30, 2019

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I needed this book for school dreading to read it, but it is very interesting and I ENJOYED READING IT

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