David Louis Edelman - MultiReal (Jump 225 Trilogy, 2)

"David Louis Edelman's vision of the future is so alive and full of energy the pages are practically buzzing. Wonderfully intricate with smart, satisfying complexity, Infoquake and its sequel, MultiReal, serve up a world where mindbending technologies promise a freedom nearly as endless as the Machiavellian ambitions of those who would control them"

Nick Sagan

author of Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree

"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. William Gibson once observed that the street finds its own uses forthings. David Louis Edelman reminds us that both boardroom and back room do as well-and the people who lurk in those places are a lot scarier..."

Peter Watts

Hugo Award-nominated author of Blindsight

'Just when we thought cyberpunk was dead, David Louis Edelman bursts on the scene with defibrillator paddles and shouts, ' Clear!' If there's any web more tangled than the World Wide one, it's the Byzantine networks of high finance; Edelman intermeshes them in a complex, compelling series.This DOES compute!"

Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo Award-winning author of Rollback and Hominids

Barnes & Noble's Science Fiction Book of the Year 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Novel 2006 #5 on Bookgasm's 5 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2006 John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award Nominee 2008

"David Louis Edelman's debut novel-the first installment of his Jump 225 trilogyis equal parts corporate thriller, technophilic cautionary tale, and breathtakingly visionary science fiction adventure.... Brilliantly blending the cutthroat intrigues of the high-tech business world with revolutionary world building, Edelman could quite possibly be the love child of DonaldTrump andVernorVinge.Infoquake is one of the most impressive science fiction debuts to come along in years-highly recommended"

Barnes & Noble Explorations

"Slick high-finance melodrama and dizzying technical speculation lift Edelman's SF debut, the first of a trilogy.... Natch's being a borderline sociopath makes him extremely creative in business tactics and personal manipulation (and thus fascinating to read about).The world in which he operates is also fascinating, with awesome personal powers being sold on a frantic open market. Edelman, who has a background in Web programming and marketing, gives his bizarre notions a convincing gloss of detail. Bursting with invention and panache, this novel will hook readers for the story's next installment."

Publishers Weekly

In Web designer and programmer Edelman's first novel, he moves quickly from scene to scene, building suspense with believable characters and in-the-know technical expertise.This series opener belongs in most SF collections"

Library Journal

"A thought-provoking and terribly imaginative book ... Infoquake is one of those books that hooks you into the story and makes you never want to put the book down. But once you have decided that you must get some sleep before work the next day, you put the book down and find yourself unable to stop thinking about the questions raised by the story."

L.A. Splash

"(5 Stars on Amazon.com) Libraries strong in speculative fiction will relish Infoquake.... A fast-paced, engrossing saga of social change"

Midwest Book Review

The manner in which people who experienced Dune upon its publication speak about Herbert's opus is not dissimilar to the feeling Infoquake elicits-the genre might not be quite the same after this book.... Infoquake is a stunning debut novel by a lucid, precise, and talented new voice in the genre.... This may beTHE science fiction book of the year."

SFFWorld

"A high-speed, high-spirited tale of high-powered and low-minded capitalist skullduggery, corporate and media warfare, and virtual reality manipulation. It's the sort of thing that would make a perfect serial for Wired magazine.... Edelman seems to have convincing and convincingly detailed knowledge of the physiology and biochemistry of the human nervous system down to the molecular level. And [he] cares about making his fictional combination of molecular biology and nanotech credible."

Norman Spinrad, Asimov's Science Fiction

"Infoquake is a triumph of speculation. Edelman has foreseen a nanotech future of warring corporations and stock markets of personal enhancement in which both the good and the bad of the present day are reflected with an even hand and startling clarity.... It's Wall Street meets Neuromancer.... Infoquake is a tech-heavy exercise in scientific speculation that combines economics, high technology, and business mechanics into an all-too-human story of greed, loss, and redemption."

Bookgasm

"Edelman has one hell of a hoot taking high-tech marketing out to draw and quarter it with style and panache. Infoquake is a very funny and insightful novel of modern economics through a futuristic funhouse mirror.... It's the kind of book that deserves to be passed quietly from cubicle to cubicle in tech companies around the nation and indeed around the world. And it's the kind of novel that you want to be passing, the kind of novel you want to be reading.... Edelman, [Cory] Doctorow, and [Charles] Stross are, like all great science fiction writers, not really writing about the future. They're responding to the present.... Edelman's vision in this regard is particularly sharp and particularly on-point. There's a certain amount of satire going on here, but Edelman is quite serious about his world, which makes it all the easier to invest in his characters and settings."

The Agony Column

If all novels were as chockfull of ideas as Infoquake is, then science fiction would never have to worry about a shortage of sense of wonder.... Edelman is like a more accessible [Charles] Stross; whereas Stross's fiction is about as dense as it can get and still be readable, Edelman's style is more inviting and, to me, more appealing.... Few first novelists manage as assured a debut as Infoquake; almost all new authors stumble around a bit in their first novel, but Edelman comes off as a seasoned professional."

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show

The hyperbole surrounding this novel seems justified-drawing on cyberpunk and singularitarian themes, it boldly places a banner for what is arguably a new subgenre of science fiction.... As an engaging fictional mirror of the modern world, written from an angle rarely used, this novel definitely marks Edelman as a writer to keep an eye on.

Futurismic

"A brisk, well-told science fiction adventure set in the normally unadventurous world of business.... Edelman handles it all with considerable narrative drive.... A simple old-fashioned story, where incident crowds onto incident, where jeopardy makes us hold our breath, and rabbits are pulled from the hat only at the very last moment"

New York Review of Science Fiction

"There's always the risk that a complicated setting will overwhelm character and story, but Edelman avoids this pitfall, evoking a surprising amount of empathy for the amoral yet oddly charming Natch, and injecting a tremendous amount of suspense into what is essentially a saga of corporate politics.... The novel also addresses weighty themes: the destructive price of greed, the unchanging relentlessness of the human drive to innovate and to compete.... An entertaining and intelligent debut that should leave readers eager for more"