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Genre: Science Fiction, General Science Fiction
Book two of Sawyer's trilogy continues the thought-provoking exploration
of an emerging consciousness in the World Wide Web. It's an original
and intriguing concept with three-dimensional, culturally diverse characters. Parts of the narrative are told
from the perspective of the artificial intelligence itself. Sawyer makes complex sci-fi understandable and thoroughly entertaining. Caitlin, a 15-year-old blind teenager, underwent a radical new treatment with unexpected results. The experimental procedure gave her a visual perspective of the World Wide Web, and she awakened an entity, a new intelligence that she named Webmind. Webmind is eager to learn about Caitlin's world, but Watch, a secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the country, has become aware of Caitlin, and they are convinced that Webmind is a risk to national security. They want it removed from the Internet, but Caitlin will do anything to protect the emergent intelligence that she's befriended. (ACE, Apr., 368 pp., $24.95) Reviewed By: Gail Pruszkowski Publisher: ACE Published: April 2010 |
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