While Saywer has long been one of my favourite sci-fi authors, I have had a few disappointments with a few of his works in the past. The WWW trilogy's first two books renewed my confidence in RJS and had me eagerly awaiting WWW:Wonder. The final installment though was not quite what I came to expect after reading the first two novels.
The story was definitely entertaining, and continued on logically from where WATCH left off. The characters were all back in some meaningful way, and up until about 3/4 of the way through the novel I was really enjoying it. Then I found there to be a downward turn in the plot. Great science fiction relies on the basis that what is happening is at least plausible. It takes current technology and extrapolates it into something new and believable. Webmind is a good example of taking something we currently have, the internet, and taking it to the next level. (It isn't a far stretch of the imagination to assume that the web and A.I. may at somepoint converge), but I feel that Sawyer went a bit too far at the end.

*Potential Spoilers ahead*



Forget the world changing effects Webmind had on a particular country, which I found was not believable in the slightest, but the commentary of Webmind in the future was extraneous. The story had a satisfactory climax, even in the premise was a bit unbelievable. But to fast forward billions of years was rediculous. Am I, the reader, really to accept the fact that the internet still exists that far into the future? And that webmind is still relevant and functional. Seems too unrealistic to me.

Overall the WWW trilogy was good reading. Personal score is 8/10.