false 959166 3 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. <P>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. <P>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&#151;all in three days. <P>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. <P>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. 2284478 5 7 2006 Infoquake (The Jump 225 Trilogy) total:141|5:33|4:49|3:40|2:15|1:4| 141 515 285 37 4 3 false false Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 15:17:46 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 13:38:57 -0700 2008
It's surprisingly engrossing for a novel in which (when you boil it down) relat...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 14:44:10 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 14:44:51 -0700 2007
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The beginning of the book was kind of odd and the main character seems kind of immature... and kind of annoying. The author probably set it up that way, but it's hard to get into the story when you can't empathize with the character.
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This book was considerably better than I was expecting. The short-form review is easy to put as "The way William Gibson should have learned to write".

This is a fusion of cyberpunk and SciFi, focusing on a future that's heavily involved with nanites and the inte...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jan 18 06:57:38 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 19 06:43:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 17:24:54 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 11:45:11 -0700 2008
Edelman does several things right here: his technology is original and flavorful (though I found its capabilities and limitations som...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 28 13:26:28 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 25 01:53:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 17:57:47 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 14:43:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 12:10:16 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 12:15:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:58:38 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:00:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 10:49:15 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 10:53:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 03 21:23:16 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 21:23:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 16:55:54 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 16:59:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 25 09:14:28 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 09:16:36 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 18:28:26 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 18:42:51 -0800 2009
Makes me want to read the other two in the series.]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 22 18:01:53 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 18:06:38 -0800 2008 1 Business meets programing meets body modification.
Ethically challenged business owner takes on world and the biologic market. ]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 18:51:20 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 18:52:28 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=959166