Wake
A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where...
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A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780441018536 (044101853X)
Publish date: March 30th 2010
Publisher: Ace
Pages no: 330
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Computer Science,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Speculative Fiction,
Canada,
Cyberpunk
Series: WWW (#1)
The author is very good at mixing scientific concepts with a fairly decent story about a young girl who regains her sight with an aid of an 'Eyepad' and how this starts to affect the ghost within the internet and awakens him to consciousness. I like that the author is always educating the reader ...
It has been a long time since I read a science fiction book with such joy as “Wake”. This is science fiction as I want it to be: human, accessible, exciting, challenging, educative, serious, funny and fast-paced. Of course, I fell in love with Calculass – the fifteen year old math genius who is gi...
12/07 - There is a lot of internet related techno-speak (I want to call it babble, but I won't, because it probably makes sense to readers who are more profficient at understanding the intricacies of the internet) which I sometimes had trouble following. In the end, after reading many baffling desc...
Superb book.
Niech będzie wszystkim wiadomo, że UWIELBIAM tego faceta. Dlatego też ta opinia nie ma NIC wspólnego z obiektywizmem - Robert J. Sawyer, którego poznałem dzięki wspaniałomyślności i zaangażowaniu Wydawnictwa Solaris to mój guru. Mistrz. Człowiek, przez którego po prostu CHCE SIĘ zdobywać wiedzę. I p...
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