WWW:WAKE

During his decades-spanning career, award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer has "undoubtedly cemented his reputation as one of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation" (SF Site). Now he adds to his impressive body of work with an imaginative and mind-blowing new trilogy of the web — and its awakening ...

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math — and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind.

When a Japanese researcher develops a new signal-processing implant that might give her sight, she jumps at the chance, flying to Tokyo for the operation.

But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. Once the implant is activated, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the world wide web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes. While exploring this amazing realm, she discovers something — some other — lurking in the background. And it's getting smarter ...

羅伯特·索耶（Robert J.Sawyer）是加拿大最有影響力的科幻作傢。已齣版17部長篇科幻小說，屢獲雨果奬、星雲奬等多種科幻奬項，被譽為加拿大科幻教長。索耶的科幻小說涉及多種主題，從電腦狂魔、恐龍復活、時間旅行，到平行時空、太空偵探，想像奇偉，異彩紛呈。索耶的代錶作除《金羊毛》外，還包括《計算中的上帝》、《終極實驗》、《恐龍文明三部麯》（《遠望》、《化石獵人》、《異族》）、《星叢》、《原始人類》和《混血》等。

Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa and lives just outside of Toronto, Canada. He has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. Visit his Website at www.sfwriter.com.