Infoquake, Vol. 1 by David Louis Edelman

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Synopsis

How far should you go to make a profit? Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative 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.

Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the bio/logics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natch's devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless armies.

To fend off the intricate net of enemies closing in around him, Natch and his apprentices must accomplish the impossible. They must understand this strange new technology, run through the product development cycle, and prepare MultiReal for release to the public-all in three days. Meanwhile, hanging over everything is the specter of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy that's disrupting the bio/logic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages.

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.

Author of Crown of Stars - Kate Elliott

"Inventive and provocative, with a surprisingly emotional kick. Read this book, and then argue about it."

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Biography

David Louis Edelman is a Web designer, programmer, and journalist. Over the past ten years, Mr. Edelman has programmed Web sites for the U.S. Army 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. He lives with his wife, Victoria, in Washington, DC.

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Customer Rating for this product is 1 out of 5 Extremely disappointing
Karmen Roth, A reviewer, 03/25/2008

Very unoriginal, poorly written and chock full of junk technotalk that serves no purpose. By the end, there wasn't a single character I cared about and the story didn't seem to go anywhere.

Customer Rating for this product is 2 out of 5 cyber geekout
Alain, a travelling chef who reads a lot!, 01/04/2007

a well meaning relative gave me infoquake for xmas. this book is jammed with geeky acronyms and it comes with an appendix listing them. if the story was as interesting as the technology, it would deserve three or four stars but most of the pages are taken up by three people talking about how to build and sell computer software (ho hum). at the end, natch is about to unleash a cool new piece of software on the world but we find out this isn't going to happen until book two. as a result, nothing interesting happens in book one!

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