{{short description|American novelist and web programmer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{for|the American policymaker|R. David Edelman}}
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'''David Louis Edelman''' is an American novelist and web programmer.<ref>[http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/ Author's web site]</ref> He is best known for his ''Jump 225'' trilogy, which has earned him nominations for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
== Early life == He was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from Villa Park High School in 1989. He majored in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated in 1993.
== Career == Over the years, Edelman's programming work has included websites for the U.S. Army and the FBI and teaching software for the U.S. Congress and the World Bank.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120913080904/http://www.mikebrotherton.com/?p=691 Interview with David Louis Edelman (Mike Brotherton)]</ref> His work in the dot-com boom of the 1990s influenced his first novel ''Infoquake''.<ref>[http://www.sffworld.com/interview/205p0.htm Interview with David Louis Edelman (sffworld.com)]{{dead link|date=January 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
=== ''Jump 225'' trilogy === His first book, ''Infoquake'' (2006), was nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/campbell-finalists.htm |title=John W. Campbell Awards website |access-date=2009-09-20 |archive-date=2011-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015115631/http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/campbell-finalists.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and named Barnes & Noble's Top SF Novel of 2006.<ref>[http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2007/01/bns-top-10-science-fiction-novels-of-2006/ B&N's Top 10 Science Fiction Novels of 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824061245/http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2007/01/bns-top-10-science-fiction-novels-of-2006/ |date=2010-08-24 }}</ref> In 2008, his second year of eligibility, he was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.<ref>[http://www.thehugoawards.org/campbell-history/ Hugo Awards' list of Campbell Award nominees]</ref>
His second novel in the series, ''MultiReal'', was released in July 2008. io9, Gawker Media's SF blog, listed ''MultiReal'' as one of its top ten books of 2009.<ref>[http://io9.com/5111939/best-science-fiction-books-of-2008 Best Science Fiction Books of 2008]</ref>
The concluding novel of the ''Jump 225'' trilogy, ''Geosynchron,'' was released in February 2010.<ref>[http://www.pyrsf.com/chapters/PyrFW0910.pdf Pyr New Releases Fall & Winter 2009-2010]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Bibliography==
=== ''Jump 225'' trilogy ===
* ''Infoquake'' (2006) * ''MultiReal'' (2008) * ''Geosynchron'' (2010)
==External links== *{{Official website|http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/}} *{{isfdb name|id=David_Louis_Edelman|name=David Louis Edelman}}
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