Geosynchron
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So now that I've done one thing authors aren't supposed to do by baldly revealing the structure underneath my book, I'll do something else authors aren't supposed to do-science fiction authors, at leastand say that I have no immediate plans to continue writing in the Jump 225 universe. I won't say never, because one of these days someone might actually pay me a big chunk of money to write more Jump 225 novels, and I'm sorry to drizzle motor oil all over your romantic ideals, but I am capable of being swayed by money. Truth is, I've had twelve years to play around in this sandbox, and I'm ready to find another one.
Regrets? I have a few. I regret that Quell called Benyamin "boy" during a conversation in Infoquake. I regret that it took me until the middle of MultiReal to figure out what the Autonomous Minds were up to, though I knew all along that they were still out there. I regret that I had to chop out several chapters' worth of Quell/Margaret Surina backstory from Geosynchron because it was sucking energy and focus out of the rest of the book. I regret that I had to take out the scene of Horvil jumping off a (virtual) cliff, and I regret that I never found the right place to stick in a reference to TF/EAG-PERN (Task Force for Eliminating Acronyms in Government and Providing Easily Remembered Names).
But overall, I have to say that I'm very proud of Infoquake, MultiReal, and Geosynchron. They're very carefully structured and very carefully written, even if I have shaded the prose a bit too purple for some tastes. In fact, I bet that if you picked up Infoquake and started the whole trilogy again from the beginning, you'd see a whole bunch of stuff you didn't see on the first go-around.
Ready? I'll start you off.
Natch was impatient....
-David Louis Edelman
Reston, VA September 30, 2009
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author would like to thank the following individuals for their editorial contributions to this book: Lou Anders, Cindy Blank-Edelman, Jerome Edelman, and Deanna Hoak.
For their contributions in publicizing and promoting his work, the author would like to thank: John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Lou Anders, Jon Armstrong, Rob Bedford, Joshua Bilmes, Carrie Blakeway, Darrell and Marsha Blakeway, Cindy and David BlankEdelman, Bruce Bortz, Tobias Buckell, Colleen Cahill, Paul Cornell, Ellen Datlow, the other bloggers at DeepGenre, Michael de Gennaro, Thomas Doyle, Jerome and Barbara Edelman, Deborah and Steve Edelman-Blank, Kate Elliott, Shaun Farrell, Nat Forgotson, JP Frantz and John DeNardo at SFSignal, Jim Freund, Matthew Jarpe, Jackie Kessler, Mindy Klasky, Mary Robinette Kowal, George Krieger, the folks at LibraryThing, Joseph Mallozzi, George Mann and the folks at Solaris Books, Philip and Erinn Mansour, Stephan Martiniere, Jill Maxick, Karen Wester Newton, John Picacio, Cat Rambo, Daniel Regard, Suzanne Rosin, Nick Sagan, Rob Sawyer, John Scalzi, Tom Schaad and the folks at Fast Forward, the other authors at SFNovel- ists.com, Patrick St-Denis, Meghan Still, Evo Terra, Peter Watts, Eleanor Weis, David J. Williams, and Sean Williams.
A special thank you to everyone at Pyr, especially Lou Anders, Jill Maxick, Jackie Cooke, and Chris Kramer.
Thanks to Sophie and Oscar for keeping the back of my neck warm while I write.
Final thanks go to Victoria Blakeway Edelman, who has suffered through my obsession with this trilogy since our first date. Not only has she listened to me angst about the books at all hours of the night for close to a decade, but she grew the two most wonderful children in the history of children, Abigail Blakeway Edelman and Benjamin Blakeway Edelman, in the process. And how did I repay her? I went ahead and put Ferris into this book after all (though to be fair, it's a different Ferris).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAV I D LO U I S E D ELM A N is a Web designer, programmer, and blogger. He lives with his wife, Victoria, and their two children near Washington, DC.
His first novel, Infoquake, was nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. Barnes & Noble called the book "the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge" and named it the Top SF Novel of 2006. His second novel, MultiReal, was named one of the top SF novels of 2008 by Gawker Media's popular Web site io9 and Pat's Fantasy Hotlist, among others. His short fiction has also appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two.
Mr. Edelman was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1971 and grew up in Orange County, California. He received a BA in creative writing and journalism from Johns Hopkins University in 1993.
HOW TO CONTACT THE AUTHOR
E-mail: dedelman@gmail.com
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*For a more detailed synopsis of the events of Infoquake and MultiReal, books 1 and 2 of the jump 225 trilogy, see appendix A.