David Louis Edelman is an American novelist and web programmer. He was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from Villa Park High School in 1989. He majored in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, where he graduated in 1993. His first book, ''Infoquake'', was nominated for the

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, is an annual award presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best science fiction no ...

and named

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's Top SF Novel of 2006. In 2008, his second year of eligibility, he was nominated for the

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Over the past ten years, Edelman's programming work has included websites for the U.S. Army and the FBI and teaching software to the U.S. Congress and the World Bank. His work in the dot com boom of the 1990s influenced his first novel ''Infoquake'' His second novel, ''MultiReal'' (a continuation of ''Infoquake'' in the trilogy entitled ''Jump 225''), was released in July 2008.

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's SF blog, listed ''MultiReal'' as one of its top ten books of 2009. The concluding novel of the ''Jump 225'' trilogy, ''Geosynchron,'' was released in February 2010.Pyr New Releases Fall & Winter 2009-2010
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Bibliography

* ''Jump 225'' Trilogy ** ''Infoquake'' (2008) ** ''MultiReal'' (2009) ** ''Geosynchron'' (2010)

External links

David Louis Edelman's official Web site
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References

21st-century American novelists American male novelists American science fiction writers Living people 1971 births 21st-century American male writers {{sf-writer-stub