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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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WAKE

The World Wide Web wakes up ...

"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

• Winner of the Aurora Award for Best Novel of the Year!
• Winner of the MIFRE Media Award!
• Finalist for the Hugo Award!
• Finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award!

• A Globe and Mail Bestseller!
• A Locus Bestseller!
• Amazon.com's #1 Technothriller Bestseller!
• A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club
• Limited-Edition Hardcover from Easton Press
• Serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
• Unabridged audio version from Audible.com

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 ...

• Snazzy graphics-and-music trailer from Penguin Canada (1 minute)
• Author interview trailer from Bookbits (6 minutes)
• Computer-animated version of Rob pitching the book (90 seconds)

More about Wake:

• Opening chapters
• Audio: Rob reading chapter 1 (MP3; 14 minutes)
• Cover text
• Book-club discussion guide
• Author's Comment for the Science Fiction Book Club edition

• Recipe for Grandma Geiger's casserole

• Acknowledgments

• Reviews
• See the Toronto subway ad

• Press release (PDF)
• Publication-quality book covers (both US and Canadian)
• See the differences between the US and Canadian book covers
• Foreign edition book covers

• About the book deal for Wake
• Rob's blog posts about Wake

• Become Caitlin Decter's Friend on Facebook
• The Calculass Zone (Caitlin's LiveJournal)

• Rob's keynote address about science fiction and artificial intelligence

• Toronto Star
• Ottawa Citizen
• Winnipeg Free Press
• Waterloo Region Record
• Maine Edge (Bangor, Maine)
• SF Signal
• Tor.com
• John Scaliz's Whatever (a "Big Ideas" essay by Rob)
• Audible.com
• The Page 69 Test

• Hardcore Nerdity (15 minutes)
• Rob interviewed by CBC's Mary Ito (9 minutes)
• Rob interviewed by Book Banter (43 minutes)
• Rob interviewed by Peter Anthony Holder, Montreal CJAD-AM (30 minutes)
• Rob interviewed by SF author Minister Faust (14 minutes)
• Rob interviewed by Mike Shinabery, Alamogordo KRSY-AM (40 minutes)
• Freedom Scientific (makers of JAWS screen-reading software) podcast (30 minutes)
• SciFi Dimensions podcast (45 minutes)

• Rob interviewed on Listen Up (includes footage of the Toronto book-launch party) (7 minutes)

• 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)

• 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

"Unforgettable. Impossible to put down." — Jack McDevitt

Ace Paperback [USA] April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01853-6 / ISBN-10: 0-441-01853-X

Viking Canada Hardcover April 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-670-06741-1 / ISBN-10: 0-670-06741-5

Penguin Canada Paperback April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-305630-0 / ISBN-10: 0-14-305630-1

Gollancz UK Hardcover November 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09406-2 / ISBN-10: 0-575-09406-0

Gollancz UK Trade Paperback November 2009; available in Australia, January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09407-9 / ISBN-10: 0-575-09407-9

Gollancz UK Paperback April 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-575-09408-6 / ISBN-10: 0-575-09408-7

Unabridged audiobook of Wake from Audible.com

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