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The advent of Webmind—a vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web—is changing everything. From curing cancer to easing international tensions, Webmind seems a boon to humanity.
But Colonel Peyton Hume, the Pentagon's top expert on artificial intelligence, is convinced Webmind is a threat. He turns to the hacker underground to help him bring Webmind down. Then, hackers start mysteriously vanishing. Is Webmind killing them before they can mount an attack? Meanwhile, Caitlin Decter—the once-blind 16-year-old math genius who discovered Webmind— desperately tries to protect her friend. And Masayuki Kuroda, the scientist whose implant gave Caitlin sight, modifies his technology to help Sinanthropus, a paraplegic Chinese freedom blogger, regain use of his legs—unaware of Sinanthropus's role in China's plans to eliminate Webmind. Can this new world of wonder survive—or will everything, Webmind included, come crashing down?
About the Author
Robert J. Sawyer has won all three top science-fiction awards. In 2008, Quill & Quire named him one of the 30 most influential people in CanLit. He lives in Mississauga.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent end,
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This review is from: Wonder (WWW, Book 3) (Hardcover)
WONDER is a fantastic conclusion to Sawyer's WWW trilogy. Sinanthropus, a character not touched upon since the middle stages of WAKE, makes a welcome return, and the struggle between Peyton Hume and Webmind reaches its anticipated - and shocking - end. Perhaps my only complaint is that other characters with their own plot lines through the previous two books receive little attention in this final installment. Dr. Marcuse, Shoshana, and Hobo appear only for a short time in what is nonetheless a very important sequence, as does Dr. Kuroda. The leak of he Decter's involvement with Webmind is also never satisfactorily explained; and given how few people knew of it, that raised questions for me. Those little details notwithstanding, I found it to be a really enjoyable read; I only wish it had been longer!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A WONDERful Read!,
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This review is from: Wonder (WWW, Book 3) (Hardcover)
Wonder is a fitting completion to the compelling and thought-provoking WWW trilogy. Sawyer, as always, creates truly believable, fascinating characters, especially Caitlin Decter - a 16 year-old blind girl who gains her sight through technology and becomes connected to the Web in ways that will blow your mind. Issues both contemporary (e.g., sexting, current world conflicts, animal rights) and speculative (e.g., emergent artificial intelligence) are handled deftly by Sawyer. Even though the entire trilogy takes place in the span of only weeks, after reading it, you feel like you've known his characters for a lifetime! A great read. Buy all three, Wake, Watch, and Wonder.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good way to end the trilogy,
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This review is from: Wonder (WWW, Book 3) (Hardcover)
I can't shake the feeling that the whole WWW trilogy was written at once and then released in three parts. This may have been the intent from the beginning, but the endings to the first and second parts leave things "hanging" too much. Since this series was conceived like this from the beginning, I was really looking forward to seeing how things would turn out in the end.Wonder doesn't disappoint, it adequately concludes the story as set up in the preceding two volumes, all while delivering Sawyer's trademark debates about consciousness, identity and morality. Although with a bit less action than other books he's written, this is adequate and the ending does leave the reader pretty safisfied and wondering if, indeed, this would be a nice evolution path for the WWW to follow.
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