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Hugo, Nebula and Campbell award-winner Robert J. Sawyer adds to his impressive body of work with Wake, the first book in an imaginative and mind-blowing new trilogy of the World Wide Web—and its awakening.

A southern California primate research center has made a breakthrough: the first-ever interspecies Webcam call starring Hobo—the world’s only known chimpanzee/bonobo hybrid. But when Hobo begins to exhibit anomalous behavior, his original owners will do anything to get him back.

In Shanxi province, China, a new bird flu appears: easily passed from human to human and 90% lethal, it may cause an epidemic of epic proportions…but its eradication may require a desperate solution.

In Canada, blind young math genius Caitlin Decter navigates the net by mentally tracing its complex pathways. But when she receives an implant that promises to give her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the Web explodes into her consciousness in a riot of colors and shapes.

Out of these seemingly random events, something unexpected arises, some new intelligence is brought into the world. And what good or evil it will bring and how all events will come together remains for us to watch and wonder….