Comments on: “Geosynchron” Is Here. Officially.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:44:06 +0000

Brian: Thanks for your thoughts. You might want to read my blog post about the ending, referenced on one of the previous comments.

I don’t see the ending as a defeat for Natch. Certainly the kind of thing you outline was one viable way to end the series. But I like the thought that Natch realizes that he can’t completely shape the world into what he wants. He has to adapt to circumstances and compromise with external forces like the rest of us.

As for the Jump 225 dream sequence, if you reread it carefully you’ll see that it sets up the structure and themes for the whole series. It’s all three books in microcosm.

By: Brian Cass

Brian Cass — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:53:44 +0000

@Jason
Let me say first of all that I agree completely with your criticism. I think forcing solipsism on Natch misses the point. On his home page, David quotes Steinbeck: “Not every man is defeated. I can name you a dozen who were not, and those are the ones the world lives by.” And yet he defeats Natch in Geosynchron completely.
The world is a hard place to life in. It’s easy to become jaded and selfish just because everyone around you seems jaded and selfish. But the journey of the hero is to learn to live in an imperfect world and lead it towards perfection, so to speak. Natch chickened out at the end. He should have have taken control of Multireal, and become the leader that the world was crying out for. He was the smartest man in the book, clearly.
Here’s my other problem with the series in general. It’s called Jump 225, but that particular piece of software is only mentioned once in the first book in a dream Natch has. So what is it? Here’s my take. At the end of the series Brone is making a new shell for Multireal that enhances it’s functions. Brone is clearly the symbol for the ego. He runs Creed Thassal, which extols “the virtue of selfishness.” So Natch, the Hero, represents the creative genius, and it is his job to destroy selfishness and lead the world in a new era of peace. How can he accomplish this?
Think back to how Multireal was created in the firstplace. It was delivered by the Autonomous Minds to the Surinas in their dreams. Jump 225 came to Natch in a dream (and probably to David too). So Jump 225 is a skin, just like Brone’s skin, but it is one developed by the Autonomous Minds and given to the chosen Messiah, namely Natch, and when it is plugged into Multireal it delivers the software Multireal 225, which gives the user, again Natch, complete control over material reality. I think the third book should have been called Multireal 225. Natch could have saved the world, instead he was just a glitch in the Matrix.

By: BiggerBooks

BiggerBooks — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 05:48:29 +0000

This was an awesome trilogy I ever read. So interesting, I love your trilogy..

Congrats David! Keep it up…

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:24:21 +0000

Unfortunately, I will not be there. I went three years in a row, but ever since I became a parent, my con attendance has dropped off precipitously…

By: Kail

Kail — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:58:50 +0000

Any chance your going to be making it to Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts?

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:29:15 +0000

Kail: No “official” avenue right now for selling signed books. You might try catching me at a DC-area con (I usually attend Balticon, Capclave and PhilCon) and I’d be happy to sign there. Otherwise, you can email me and we could try to make some other offline arrangement for getting ‘em signed.

By: Kail

Kail — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:50:19 +0000

So where do I go to get the books signed?

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:37:15 +0000

nalakitty01: Glad you did too! Thanks for the persistence.

By: nalakitty01

nalakitty01 — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:07:26 +0000

I didn’t read this before (I forgot to check for new blogs and got really distracted), but I did just what you said! I went to Barnes & Noble to find all three books and they always had them “in stock but not in store,” whatever that means T_T
Anywho, I was shocked and had to order it specifically. So glad I did ^_^

By: phil

phil — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:46:21 +0000

this was an awesome trilogy, and that last book was truly excellent. it would have been so easy to mess up the last one, given what you’d already built with the first two.

the most surprising thing about geosynchron, to me, was how emotional it became, especially considering how much of the overall story is technology and business–not typically emotional themes.

it was particularly surprising for me, because i’m usually far too cynical to be reached that way from reading most fiction, much less sci-fi. that it managed to get to me is, in my opinion, a huge indication of how well the story was told, so hats off.

i have to admit **BEGIN SPOILER** that i was disappointed with how things ended, but only because it was in some sense, a bit of a bummer ** END SPOILER**. Still, I feel that any other way would have taken a lot away from what I felt the point of the story was.