Infoquake (Jump 225 Trilogy Series #1)

Fantastic and gripping beginning to a trilogy

From the start you are thrown into a world that is controlled by bio/logics, a programmable code that extends the capabilities of the body and mind. You work backwards to figure out who Natch is and how he fits into a world of ruthless futuristic business tactics that surround bio/logics. It combines the cut-throat world of a competitive and ever-changing industry along with the philosophical and moral struggles that are attached to any society trying to progress through technology. This is a must read novel. I could not put it down after the introduction of MultiReal, a new technology that will revolutionize the way this futuristic world functions. You start this novel by investigating this new world and end up feeling like you are living in it. You become attached to all of the characters including Natch, Jara, Horvil, Serr Vigal and Quell-- flaws and all. This is just Book 1 of the Jump 225 Trilogy and you are left wanting more.

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superb futuristic science fiction

In the distant future, though relatively young, Natch is an extremely ambitious expert on the coding of nano-technical human bio-logics with a reputation that he will try anything and risk everything to be number one in his field. Margaret Surina owns a new technology MultiReal that others covet with High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless minion willing to do whatever to force her to give it to them. She offers Natch an opportunity to ¿sell¿ her new product including allowing him to use it if he can bring to market in three days he readily agrees. Natch and his team work on understanding MultiReal at the same time that Borda sends his army to take control of the product regardless of what they must do even killing Natch and his team while others make a ¿bid¿ on it too before the anticipated public market feeding frenzy. Meanwhile fear grows amidst the bio-logic world that the infoquake everyone fears is coming sooner than later to destroy their technology returning the world to the Dark Ages of stand alone CPUs and other supporting peripheral machinery. --- The reason this futuristic science fiction seems plausible is the depth of details interwoven into the cat and mouse story line so much so that the audience will accept nano-technology bio-logics as happening today, which is some ways are already here with artificial limbs and organs. Batch is not a heroic figure as his climb to the top is brutally and amorally stomping on competitors however, compared with Borda, he seems like a saint. In the first Jump 225 tale, David Louis Edelman writes an exciting thriller that grips the audience once Surina hires Natch. --- Harriet Klausner

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A fresh approach to post-cyber-apocalyptic cyberpunk

Edelman is no Gibson, but then again neither is Gibson these days. If you like Cory Doctorow and need something to read in the interludes between Neal Stephenson's monoliths, give Edelman a try.

The First Steps Towards Perfection

Infoquake follows the rise of bio/logic programmer Natch who lets nothing stand in the way of his ambition. This natural programmer and status climber will do anything to claw his way to the top. But there are others who are watching Natch and will use him as a tool to advance their agendas which could alter the very nature of humanity's future. Margaret Surina has developed a software that could alter the fabric of ordinary life, but she cannot bring Multireal to the masses. She finds an apt tool in Natch. But who is using who? For there are plenty of other alternative forces at work who want to control Multireal. But Natch for there is only one choice - forward and anyone in his way had better move or be run down.

Complex and enthralling- Edelman has created a world where everyone of us can be better than ordinary if we can afford it. But all in all we're still human and all of our flaws and urges only become magnified as we increase our abilities.

Extremely disappointing

Very unoriginal, poorly written and chock full of junk technotalk that serves no purpose. By the end, there wasn't a single character I cared about and the story didn't seem to go anywhere.

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cyber geekout

a well meaning relative gave me infoquake for xmas. this book is jammed with geeky acronyms and it comes with an appendix listing them. if the story was as interesting as the technology, it would deserve three or four stars but most of the pages are taken up by three people talking about how to build and sell computer software (ho hum). at the end, natch is about to unleash a cool new piece of software on the world but we find out this isn't going to happen until book two. as a result, nothing interesting happens in book one!

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Underwhelming

Infoquake is a technology heavy book set in a near future Earth and based around a small company developing new biologic 'software' for trivial purposes such as changing your eye color or keeping a poker face. Few of the concepts presented seemed very original and there was a lot of jargon and irrelevant history along the way. None of the characters are particularly memorable and I was annoyed that the story is cut off very abruptly at the end of this book, when it finally seemed to be going somewhere. The core concept of 'Multireal' is poorly explained and we only see it in action once. Based on this, I doubt I will come back for future books in this trilogy.

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Outstanding debut novel

Infoquake is one of the best Sci-Fi novels I've seen in years - the plot speed, character development, and story are all perfectly thought out. The reader is left begging for more....

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