Wake

Name: Wake
Author: Robert J. Sawyer

2009 novel by Robert J. Sawyer

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Also known as WWW: Wake

Author: Robert J. Sawyer
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-21
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Released: November 2008
Publisher: Viking Press
Language: English
Genre: postcyberpunk
, science fiction
Followed by: Watch

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Wake, also called WWW: Wake, is a 2009 novel written by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer and the first book in his WWW Trilogy. It was first serialized in four parts in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from November 2008 to March 2009, was first published in book form on April 8, 2009, and was followed by Watch in 2010 and by Wonder in 2011. The novel details the spontaneous emergence of an intelligence on the World Wide Web, called Webmind, and its friendship with a blind teenager named Caitlin.

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Part of the series: WWW Trilogy
Website: wakewatchwonder.com language: English
Country of origin: Canada
Nominations: Hugo Award for Best Novel(2010)
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Title: Wake
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-21
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Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-06-04
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Has version, edition or translation: Wake distribution format: hardcover

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