Robert J. Sawyer: WWW (Paperback, 2010, Ace)
Paperback, 352 pages
Published March 30, 2010 by Ace.
Loved it! Could literally not stop reading. I like the way the story unfolds, and specially like the multiple references to bits of additional knowledga that support and give context to the story. I am finding this series to become one of my favorites ever!
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All in all a very good book especially for the second book in a trilogy.
I had feared that, now that Katelyn has her sight back, I'd lose the special interest Wake had for me as someone with low vision.
But no worries, I was as captivated with Watch as I was with Wake.
I still have trouble with how easy a time Webmind has with his own emergent structure and with understanding and communicating with humans.
While at the beginning of the book he did get into trouble, from that point on it was clear sailing for Webmind.
There is an external threat to contend with, and Katelyn is guiding him, but I'd expect more mistakes from an alien intelligence.
There is also a bit too many scenes were one person explains something to another. Sometimes Sawyer has to go to some extreme lengths to set this up.
For …
All in all a very good book especially for the second book in a trilogy.
I had feared that, now that Katelyn has her sight back, I'd lose the special interest Wake had for me as someone with low vision.
But no worries, I was as captivated with Watch as I was with Wake.
I still have trouble with how easy a time Webmind has with his own emergent structure and with understanding and communicating with humans.
While at the beginning of the book he did get into trouble, from that point on it was clear sailing for Webmind.
There is an external threat to contend with, and Katelyn is guiding him, but I'd expect more mistakes from an alien intelligence.
There is also a bit too many scenes were one person explains something to another. Sometimes Sawyer has to go to some extreme lengths to set this up.
For Example Katelyn is set up as not knowing what a Unitarian Christian is, even though her mother is one, so her mother can explain the Unitarian theology to her.
Katelyn may have been blind but she's not stupid, even if she didn't see where her mother went to Unitarian meetings, she would have known something about it.
An SF book balances characters, plot and cool-idea. In this case, the emphasis was on the cool idea, which is never my favorite, but that's just me. Has regular info-dumps, which I skimmed. It would help if I hadn't read a case study by Oliver Sacks about the difficulties of a blind person regaining their sight -- the character in the book has far too easy a time of it.
