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For the American policymaker, see R. David Edelman.
David Louis Edelman
David Louis Edelman
David Louis Edelman
BornFebruary 25, 1971
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
OccupationNovelist and Web Designer
NationalityAmerican
GenreScience fiction
Website
www.davidlouisedelman.com

David Louis Edelman is an American novelist and web programmer.[1] 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 [2] and named Barnes & Noble's Top SF Novel of 2006.[3] In 2008, his second year of eligibility, he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer [4]

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.[5] His work in the dot com boom of the 1990s influenced his first novel Infoquake [6]

His second novel, MultiReal (a continuation of Infoquake in the trilogy entitled Jump 225), was released in July 2008. io9, Gawker Media's SF blog, listed MultiReal as one of its top ten books of 2009.[7]

The concluding novel of the Jump 225 trilogy, Geosynchron, was released in February 2010.[8]

Bibliography

  • Jump 225 Trilogy
    • Infoquake (2008)
    • MultiReal (2009)
    • Geosynchron (2010)

References

  1. ^ Author's web site
  2. ^ John W. Campbell Awards website
  3. ^ B&N's Top 10 Science Fiction Novels of 2006 Archived 2010-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Hugo Awards' list of Campbell Award nominees
  5. ^ Interview with David Louis Edelman (Mike Brotherton)[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Interview with David Louis Edelman (sffworld.com)[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Best Science Fiction Books of 2008
  8. ^ Pyr New Releases Fall & Winter 2009-2010


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