Infoquake

Hack the Body, and the Mind Will Follow

How far should you go to make a profit?

Infoquake, the debut novel by web programmer 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Published Editions

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eBook
Published by Baen
421 pages
ISBN 978-1-62579-750-6

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Audiobook
Published by Audible Studios
Narrated by Tom Dheere

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Mass Market Paperback
Published by Solaris
432 pages
ISBN 1844165825
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Trade Paperback
Published by Pyr
421 pages
ISBN 1591024420
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Polish Translation
Published by Fabryka Słów
478 pages
ISBN 978-83-7574-692-1

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Greek Translation
Published by Dokos
452 pages
ISBN 978-960-99206-1-2

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Russian Translation
Coming 2023-24 from Eksmo in paper, ebook, and audio

Excerpt: Number One on Primo's

Natch was impatient.

He strode around the room with hands clasped behind his back and head bowed forward, like a crazed robot stuck on infinite loop. Around and around, back and forth, from the couch to the door to the window, and then back again.

Behind him, the window was tuned to some frantic cityscape that Jara didn’t recognize. Buildings huddled together at crooked angles like the teeth of old men, as tube trains probed the cavities.

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  • Barnes & Noble's Science Fiction Book of the Year 2006
  • John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Novel 2006
  • John W. Campbell Award Nominee for Best New Writer 2007

“Slick high-finance melodrama and dizzying technical speculation lift Edelman’s SF debut, the first of a trilogy... Bursting with invention and panache, this novel will hook readers for the story’s next installment.”
Publishers Weekly

“The genre might not be quite the same after this book... Infoquake is a stunning debut novel by a lucid, precise, and talented new voice in the genre.... This may be THE science fiction book of the year.”
SFFWorld

“A high-speed, high-spirited tale of capitalist skullduggery.”
Norman Spinrad, Asimov’s

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