Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Author of FlashForward and WWW:Wake

WATCH

The New Novel by Hugo and Nebula Award Winner
Robert J. Sawyer

The second book in the WWW trilogy that began with Wake ...

Praise for Watch:

"Original and intriguing. Sawyer makes complex sci-fi understandable and thoroughly entertaining."— Romantic Times BOOKReviews (4½ Stars — their highest rating)

Praise for Wake:

"Sawyer continues to push the boundaries with his stories of the future made credible. His erudition, eclecticism, and masterly storytelling make Wake a choice selection." — Library Journal
"Wildly thought-provoking. The thematic diversity — and profundity — makes this one of Sawyer's strongest works to date." — Publishers Weekly (starred review, denoting a book of exceptional merit)
"From an author who has won just about every award a science fiction author can comes one of the most original and fascinating novels to be published in a long time. It's one of those books that has just as much right to be on a fiction shelf with other literature classics." — Sacramento Book Review

About Watch:

A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club
Limited Edition hardcover from Easton Press
Unabridged audio version from Audible.com

Ace Hardcover [USA] April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01818-5 / ISBN-10: 0-441-01818-1

Viking Canada Hardcover April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-06742-8 / ISBN-10: 0-670-06742-3

Gollancz UK Hardcover May 20, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09503-8 / ISBN-10: 0-575-09503-2

Gollancz UK Trade Paperback May 20, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09504-5 / ISBN-10: 0-575-09504-0

Gollancz UK Trade Paperback available in Australia, (date TBA)
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09504-5 / ISBN-10: 0-575-09504-0

More about Watch:

Opening chapters
Need a reminder of what happened in Wake? Here's a synopsis
Publication-quality book cover (US edition)
Differences between the US and Canadian book covers
Become Caitlin Decter's Friend on Facebook
The Calculass Zone (Caitlin's LiveJournal)
Rob's keynote address about science fiction and artificial intelligence

Rob's talks about the science behind Wake and Watch:

Rob's talk for Google about the science behind the novel (72 minutes)
Rob's talk at the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience at Penn (90 minutes)

Rob's articles on artificial intelligence and computing:

Editorial from Science on Robot Ethics
On Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines
On Bill Joy's "The Future Doesn't Need Us"
On Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
On science fiction's portrayals of AI
On computers and attention deficit
A glimpse of AI in the year 3000

WakeWatchWonder.com

Penguin's official site for Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy featuring a book trailer, wallpapers, screensavers, FAQs, and much more!

Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter received the gift of sight with the aid of a signal-processing retinal implant. The technology also gave her an unexpected side effect — the ability to "see" the digital data streams of the World Wide Web. And within the Web, she perceived an extraordinary presence, and woke it up.
It calls itself Webmind. It is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin and has grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH — the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States, whether foreign, domestic, or online — and the agents are fully aware of Caitlin's involvement in its awakening.
WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind's capacity for compassion — and she will do anything and everything necessary to protect her friend.

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Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer ROBERT J. SAWYER Author of FlashForward and WWW:Wake

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Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Author of FlashForward and WWW:Wake