Robert J. Sawyer parle de son dernier livre en anglais "Wake" dans une interview.

"SF Signal: Tell us about your latest novel, Wake, including what themes it deals with.
Robert J. Sawyer: Wake is the first volume of a trilogy about the World Wide Web gaining consciousness. It tells the story of Caitlin Decter, a 15 - year-old math wiz who has been blind since birth. She receives an implant that lets her see the real world - and also, due to a glitch, lets her see the structure of the Web when she's downloading into the implant. She discovers a nascent consciousness lurking there - but it's lost in a world of sensory deprivation. Just as Caitlin's idol, Annie Sullivan, reached down into the darkness to pull up Helen Keller, so Caitlin tries to do the same with the newly born Webmind.

The second book - which I just finished, and which my editor at Ace says is "even better than the first" - is called Watch, and I'm just about to start writing Wonder, the final volume; together, Wake, Watch, and Wonder are the "WWW" trilogy.

Among the themes the books deal with are the nature of perception and how it shapes our view of reality; how much humans are in fact programmed by evolution, and whether humanity can overcome that programming; and what, if any, value consciousness has.

I'm also very interested in trying to find a new synthesis, a new approach to the question of what happens once something more intelligent than we are emerges here. Is there a way out of the standard science-fictional paradigm that has us subjugated or wiped out, as seen in The Matrix and The Terminator, and going all the way back to Colossus: The Forbin Project and before? Is there a compelling argument to be made for us being able to continue, with our essential humanity intact, once true AI is on the scene?

These are the hardest books I've ever written, but many commentators have said that Wake - which was serialized in Analog - is also the best thing I've ever written, and that's very gratifying."