David Louis Edelman is a writer and web programmer. His first book, Infoquake, was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel and named Barnes & Noble's Top SF Novel of 2006. His latest novel, MultiReal, was released in July 2008.

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1. Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Hobbit”  •  May 10, 2007
   J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion contains a beautiful depiction of the world’s creation through music by Eru Ilúvatar and his choir of Ainur. It has passionate love stories, an Oedipal tale of woe, and theological conundrums aplenty. The Hobbit, by contrast, contains: A character who invents the game of golf by knocking the head of the goblin Golfimbul into [...]