David Louis Edelman

“Edelman could quite possibly be the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge.” — Barnes & Noble Explorations

I’m a science fiction novelist, blogger, and web programmer living outside of Washington, DC. You might have heard of my debut novel, Infoquake , which was named Barnes & Noble’s Top SF Novel in 2006 and nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel. You might have also seen me on the list of nominees for the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

In addition to writing, I've also programmed websites for the U.S. Army, ExxonMobil, Rolls-Royce, and the FBI; taught software to the U.S. Congress and the World Bank; written articles for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun; and directed the marketing departments of biometric and e-commerce companies.

Wanna know more? Check out my official website and my blog .

Barnes & Noble’s Top SF Novel of 2006
Nominee, 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel
#5 in Bookgasm’s Top 5 SF Novels of 2006

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Infoquake, the debut novel by web programmer David Louis Edelman, takes science fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It’s a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches. With Infoquake, David Louis Edelman has created a fully detailed world that’s both as imaginative as Dune and as real as today’s Wall Street Journal. Read the book Barnes & Noble Explorations called “the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge.”

“Infoquake is one of the most impressive science fiction debuts to come along in years — highly recommended."
— Barnes & Noble Explorations

“The genre might not be quite the same after this book....This may be THE science fiction book of the year."
— SFFWorld

“A high-speed, high-spirited tale of capitalist skullduggery.”
— Norman Spinrad, Asimov’s

“David Louis Edelman’s Infoquake just might be one of the very best science fiction debuts I have ever read. The book deserves all the praise it has garnered, and then some!”
— Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist

The sequel to Infoquake
Available July 2008

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David Louis Edelman’s debut novel Infoquake was called “the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge” and hailed as the best science fiction debut of 2006. The story continues with MultiReal, the stunning second book in the Jump 225 trilogy. Natch’s struggle will take him from the halls of power in Melbourne to the ruined cities of the diss. Hanging in the balance is the fate of MultiReal, a technology that could end the tyranny of the Council forever — or give the Council the ultimate weapon of oppression.

“Edelman brings fresh air to the technological thriller... MultiReal itself is firmly established as one of the most fascinating singularity technologies in years.”
— Publishers Weekly

“A thoroughly-successful hybrid of Neuromancer and Wall Street, MultiReal is the kind of thought-experiment we need more of around here: rigorously backgrounded, tightly plotted, and built around one of the most intriguing neurotech conceits I’ve encountered in years.”
— Peter Watts

“The Matrix meets Boston Legal... A true page-turner that I could not put down... The combination of extraordinary world building, compelling characters that grow on you in Jara and Natch, legal intrigue, political maneuverings and fast action made MultiReal an even more entertaining book for me than Infoquake, which I loved too.”
—Fantasy Book Critic

“Mathralon” — Originally published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, this experimental story told from the point of view of a colony of forgotten space miners contains no plot, no characters, and no dialogue.

“A deliberately dry, unconventionally narrated account of the mining of a rare mineral, a story on a galactic scale which only serves to show what very small worlds we inhabit.”
— The Guardian

“Introduction to Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone” — My introduction to the Overlook Press reissue of the classic third novel of the Gormenghast Trilogy. Answers the question, was Mervyn Peake switching gears with Titus Alone, or was he losing his marbles?