WWW: Watch
Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his "wildly though- provoking" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of...
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Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer continues his "wildly though- provoking" science fiction saga of a sentient World Wide Web. Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States-and they're fully aware of Caitlin's involvement in its awakening. WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind's capacity for compassion-and she will do anything and everything necessary to protect her friend.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780441018185 (0441018181)
Publish date: April 6th 2010
Publisher: Ace Hardcover
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Cultural,
Computer Science,
Computers,
Internet,
Speculative Fiction,
Canada,
Cyberpunk
Series: WWW (#2)
The author states in the forward that he thinks of this book has his best book ever. It's clearly the best book of the three in the series. I loved the meta reference to the narrator of this Audible book, Mark Vietor, being the perfect voice for which the self-aware entity, WebMind, chooses to speak...
28/07 - This was even better than Wake! Watch wasn't quite as chock-a-block with techno-speak because the technology (Caitlin's eyePod, WebMind's appearance etc) had already been set up, so Sawyer didn't have to overload the reader with background information on how it all worked. This left more tim...
28/07 - This was even better than Wake! Watch wasn't quite as chock-a-block with techno-speak because the technology (Caitlin's eyePod, WebMind's appearance etc) had already been set up, so Sawyer didn't have to overload the reader with background information on how it all worked. This left more t...
This second book of the series, exploring the evolution of the Webmind, was more enjoyable for me than the first. I found the weaving together of the unusual plots of the first very entertaining, and surprising. And the overall tone seemed less preachy than the first book. I was startled to hear ...
WWW: Watch (WWW, #2)WWW: Watch by Robert J. SawyerMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThis continues the tale of Caitlin and the emergent AI Webmind. This is a fun book, easy to read, packed with ideas and with characters you care about.This book is slightly more static than the first in the series. It allows it...