I got them then either as ebooks or as Talking Books from the CNIB, and have now read them all. “Back in the summer, the school gave me a list of all the books we’re doing this year in English class. How seeing more could make people see less was beyond her.”Īnd Sawyer has a bit of fun with the status of the scifi genre, in this passage from Caitlin’s LiveJournal (entries for which are interspersed throughout the text): ‘Yeah,’ agreed Bashira, ‘but he’s a hunky asshole.’Ĭaitlin shook her head. In this passage, Caitlin and her friend Bashira are discussing a boy who has shown an interest in Caitlin, after he walks away from their cafeteria table: Inspired by Helen Keller’s autobiography, The Story of My Life, Caitlin makes it her mission to reach out to this “other,” and bring it to whatever self-actualization it can accomplish.ĭiscussion: I loved the use of Caitlin’s blindness to “see” through the preoccupations of the sighted world.

And what she discovers there is a primitive-seeming intelligence that is trying to communicate with her.

She can still toggle the eyepad back and forth, however, to see just the web. The doctor figures out how to change the code, and Caitlin is able to see “real life” for the first time. Kuroda misses an important coding sequence on the first try, and what Caitlin sees is not the structure of the world, but that of the world wide web, which her brain has adapted to use since she was small. Rob lives just outside Toronto.His website and blog are at, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Patreon he’s RobertJSawyer.When a Japanese scientist offers to test an experimental “eyepod” on her that will remap the signals from her eye to her brain, she jumps at the chance.ĭr. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, the highest honor bestowed by the Canadian government, as well as the Order of Ontario, the highest honor given by his home province he was also one of the initial inductees into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He also scripted the two-part finale for the popular web series Star Trek Continues. Rob’s novel FlashForward was the basis for the ABC TV series of the same name, and he was a scriptwriter for that program. Smith Memorial Award, and the Hal Clement Memorial Award the top SF awards in China, Japan, France, and Spain and a record-setting sixteen Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”). Sawyer is one of only eight writers ever to win all three of the world’s top awards for best science-fiction novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W.

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