Daemon by Daniel Suarez

This writer is the geek version of Dan Brown. The writing is slightly better. This book wasn't a compete waste of time, but there are a lot of things that would have been more worth the time, such as looking at LOLcat pictures. Which brings up the fact that the geek parts of Daemon are mostly just pop culture references that already sound stupid.

Pages: 429

WWW: Wake by Robert J Sawyer

The last novel up for a Hugo. This one is about a blind girl who gets an eye implant that can communicate with the inventor via wi-fi. An AI that evolved out of missing packets on the internet starts reading the datastream from the eye implant. The girl realizes it, then teaches it until it becomes super intelligent (which mostly entails pointing it to various websites). The story ends. Yes, the book spends over three hundred pages to get to the interesting part and then ends. Also, WWW: Wake was big on pop culture buzzwords like "Live Journal" and "Google". It looks like The Windup Girl will get my vote, since it was the closest to a Hugo winner.

Pages: 310