"WWW: Wake" by Robert J. Sawyer is a thrilling book. The story mainly follows a girl with a unique case of blindness that just so happens to be a polymath. She gets in contact with a Japanese researcher that implants a device in her left eye. Afterwards, she begins to see the world wide web before she sees the real world. As Sawyer explains, she sees the internet in its abstract nature, not how regular people see browsers, websites, and whatnot. Later, it becomes clear to her that the internet she encountered was actually a being. The girl teaches this being how to communicate and eventually finds solace in its futuristic company. Intermittently dispersed throughout the novel are sub-plots; the reader understands the importance of these as the story progresses.