INFOQUAKE (Jump 225: 1)

Volume 1 of the Jump 225 Trilogy

Natch is a master of biologics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the biologics 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 spectre of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy that's disrupting the biologic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages.

"INFOQUAKE is to the technologies of today what William Gibson's NEUROMANCER was to the technologies of the early 1980s. We've met cyberspace, and David Louis Edelman is the visionary sf author who's showing us what we're going to do with it. - Edelman was a finalist for both the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best SF Novel for INFOQUAKE, which was also named the Best SF Novel of the Year by Barnes & Noble." (from the agent's pitch letter)

David Louis Edelman is a Web designer, programmer, and journalist. Over the past ten years, he 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.

www.infoquake.net