My brother feels his friend Robert J. Sawyer from Toronto could win another Nebula or Hugo for his WWW trilogy: Wake, Watch, Wonder.

SUPERB.

Thought provoking. Smart. Yet accessible to all ages.

The protagonist is a believable teen girl.

REVIEW by C. Baker:

… WWW: Watch is the second novel of a trilogy about an artificial intelligence, or consciousness that emerges from the World Wide Web.

In the previous novel , WWW: Wake, Catlin Decter, a brilliant 15 year old blind girl is given sight through experimental technology in the form of an implant that interprets visual signals correctly and allows her to see (in her left eye at least). Through this device she discovers a presence in the Web that starts to gain greater and greater cognitive abilities, which grows as the second novel progresses. She dubs it Webmind.

In Watch, we watch as Webmind not only develops cognitive abilities exponentially, but through the help of Catlin begins to develop its sense of ethics and, without being too maudlin, an understanding of “the meaning of life.” This novel is primarily about this development, along with government agencies trying to figure out how to shut Webmind down, fearing it will become so powerful it will destroy mankind. …

Wikipedia

The “story” of this book is that the author feels it’s the strongest of the three. The middle book of trilogy is normally the weakest.

read my review of Book 1 in the trilogy – Wake.