WWW: Wonder

Robert J. Sawyer

Apr 2011 · The WWW Trilogy Book 3 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

Caitlin Decter discovered Webmind, the vast artificial intelligence that spontaneously emerged from the World Wide Web and changed the world-from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the Pentagon has declared war on it, recruiting hackers to delete Webmind out of existence...

Ratings and reviews

It started well but flagged after the first 100 pages. Really all 3 books could have made one decent book but everyone has to have trilogies I suppose.

A really inspiring book. Sawyer's premise provides a much needed counterpoint to many depressing themes about the human future that have been circulating in SF since its inception. Wish I'd had this trilogy when I was reading YA fiction.

Sawyer addresses so many of the complex unknowns of AI and the future of technology that the novels are exhilarating and on many levels educational.

About the author

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.