A new book

Picked up a random book at the library the other day. It is called WWW:
Wake by Robert J. Sawyer. I did not expect much from its random book
status, but it has managed to defy expectations.

The book is completely science fiction. It has a few different storylines.
The first is about The Chinese locking off all outside internet connections
to China because of a highly contagious outbreak of the flu that spreads
human to human and has a 90 percent mortality rate. They don't want a panic
caused by an influx of Western influences. Many mentions were made the
Tiananmen square riots as justification. The second line follows a It
worker and protest blogger in China who works to break through the blocks.
The next line follows a young girl recently moved to Canada who.us blind.
She travels to Japan for a surgery that might restore her eyesight.
However, instead it gives her a way to visualize the internet. But not how
we would see it as Web pages, she sees it as moving data.

The last thread took me a while to clue into though it had been the first
written of in the book. Idismissed it as one of those philosophical blurbs
authors will sometimes start chapters with and skipped over them. However
they slowly get loner and seems to shift based on previous actions in the
other three viewpoints. What IT is is unknown, even to itself. Each chapter
is its own personal growth into something larger then itself.

I love when books keep me thinking. Thus was a good choice. I'll have to
find more of him.