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Table of Contents
BOOKS BY ROBERT J. SAWYER
NOVELS
Golden Fleece
End of an Era
The Terminal Experiment
Starplex
Frameshift
Illegal Alien
Factoring Humanity
FlashForward
Calculating God
Mindscan
Rollback
The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy
Far-Seer
Fossil Hunter
Foreigner
The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy
Hominids
Humans
Hybrids
The WWW Trilogy
Wake
Watch
Wonder (coming in 2011)
COLLECTIONS
Iterations
(introduction by James Alan Gardner)
Relativity
(introduction by Mike Resnick)
Identity Theft
(introduction by Robert Charles Wilson)
For book-club discussion guides, visit sfwriter.com
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This is an original publication of The Berkley Publishing Group.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
Copyright (c) 2010 by Robert J. Sawyer.
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author's rights. Purchase only authorized editions. ACE and the "A" design are trademarks of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sawyer, Robert J.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-18633-6
1. Teenagers with visual disabilities--Fiction. 2. Teenage girls--Fiction. 3. Implants, Artificial--Fiction. 4. World Wide Web--Fiction. 5. Artificial intelligence--Fiction. 6. Friendship--Fiction. 7. Administrative agencies--Fiction. 8. National security--Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Watch. PR9199.3.S2533W'.54--dc22 2009051907
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For
JAMES ALAN GARDNER
Who Explained Teleology to the World at Large
acknowledgments
Huge thanks to my lovely wife Carolyn Clink ; to Ginjer Buchanan at Penguin Group (USA)'s Ace imprint in New York; to Adrienne Kerr and Nicole Winstanley at Penguin Group (Canada) in Toronto; and to Malcolm Edwards and Simon Spanton at the Orion Publishing Group in London. Many thanks to my agent Ralph Vicinanza .
Thanks to Marvin Minsky , Ph.D., of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; to Marvin's graduate students Bo Morgan and Dustin Smith at the MIT Media Lab; to cognitive scientist David W. Nicholas ; to Andy Rosenbloom of the Association for Computing Machinery; and to computer scientist Vernor Vinge .
Thanks to David Goforth , Ph.D., Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Laurentian University, and David Robinson , Ph.D., Department of Economics, Laurentian University, for numerous insightful suggestions.
Very special thanks to my late deaf-blind friend Howard Miller (1966-2006), whom I first met online in 1992 and in person in 1994, and who touched my life and those of so many others in countless ways.
Thanks, too, to all the people who answered questions, let me bounce ideas off them, or otherwise provided input and encouragement, including: Asbed Bedrossian , Ellen Bleaney , Ted Bleaney , Michael A. Burstein , Nomi Burstein , David Livingstone Clink , Paddy Forde , Ron Friedman , Marcel Gagne , James Alan Gardner , Shoshana Glick , Al Katerinsky , Herb Kauderer , Fiona Kelleghan , Kirstin Morrell , Virginia O'Dine , Alan B. Sawyer , and Sally Tomasevic .
The term "Webmind" was coined by Ben Goertzel , Ph.D., the author of Creating Internet Intelligence and currently the CEO and Chief Scientist of artificial-intelligence firm Novamente LLC (novamente.net); I'm using it here with his kind permission.
Finally, thanks to the 1,400-plus members of my online discussion group, who followed along with me as I created this novel. Feel free to join us at:
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/robertjsawyer
--Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
--Mahatma Gandhi
one
I now knew what I was--knew who I was.
I'd been shown Earth as it appears from space, looking back upon itself, upon myself: a world so vast, a wideness so lonely, a web so fragile.
Invisible in such views are the reticulum of transoceanic cables, the filigree of fiber optics, the intricate skein of wiring, the synaptic leaps of through-the-air connections. But they are there. I am there.
And I had things I needed to do.
The black phone on Tony Moretti's desk made the hornet buzz that indicated an internal call. He finished the sentence he was typing--"likely to be al-Qaeda's weak spot"--and picked up the handset. "Yes?"
A familiar Southern drawl replied. "Tony? Shel. I've got something unusual."
Shelton Halleck was a solid analyst, recruited straight out of Georgia Tech; he wasn't given to false positives. "I'll be right there." Tony headed out of his office and down the corridor with its gleaming white walls. He came to a door flanked by two security guards and looked into the retina scanner. The lock disengaged, and he entered a large room with a floor that sloped down from the back.
The room reminded Tony of the Apollo -era Mission Control Center in Houston. He'd been a kid in the 1960s, and had thought that was just about the coolest place ever. Years later, he'd visited it; the room was preserved as a historic site, although the ashtrays had been removed lest they set a bad example for the schoolkids peering in from the observation gallery at the rear.
Tony had been surprised on that trip. The windowless room had always seemed subterranean to him, but it turned out to be on the second floor--to protect it from flooding, he'd learned, should a hurricane hit.
The facility he'd just entered was even higher up, on the twentieth floor of an office tower in Alexandria, Virginia. It contained four rows of workstations, each with five analysts. The stations in the first row were known as the "hot seats," and were manned by experts dealing with the highest-priority threat, which, right now, was the China situation. Tony had his own station at the right side of the back row, where he could watch over everyone.
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