Robert J. Sawyer 9 min read

As the consciousness waking within the World Wide Web grows in awareness, blind prodigy Caitlin Decter, the one human who can perceive it, becomes its teacher and its bridge to humanity.

Robert J. Sawyer's 2010 novel (here an author's extract) continues his acclaimed WWW trilogy. Sharp, warm, ingenious. Read it for the middle of a superb modern SF tale about a benevolent intelligence emerging on the internet and learning to be, told through a brilliant girl's eyes, blending real science, big ideas, and genuine heart, from a master of accessible hard SF.

In its time

Published in 2010, during the 2010s, creative-commons sf and web-native serials.

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).