Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from within.
As black code continues to eat away at Natch's sanity, he faces a mutiny from his own apprentices, a legal onslaught from the government, and the return of enemies old and new. In desperation, the entrepreneur turns to some unlikely allies: a radical politician with an agenda of his own, and a childhood enemy to whom he has done a terrible wrong.
Natch's struggle will take him from the halls of power in Melbourne to the ruined cities of the diss. Hanging in the balance is the fate of MultiReal, a technology that could end the tyranny of the Council forever—or give the Council the ultimate weapon of oppression.
Book 2 in the Jump 225 Series.
Praise for Infoquake:
"Slick high-finance melodrama and dizzying technical speculation lift Edelman's SF debut. . . . Bursting with invention and panache, this novel will hook readers for the story's next installment." —Publishers Weekly
"INFOQUAKE should appeal to just about any SF reader, but if you like Herbert's Dune or any of Stross' work, you should really enjoy this book." —SF Signal
Praise for MultiReal:
"Edelman brings fresh air to the technological thriller. . . . MultiReal itself is firmly established as one of the most fascinating singularity technologies in years." —Publishers Weekly
"Once you realize that Natch is less Neo than he is Steve Jobs, you're in for a swell ride." —Sci-Fi WeeklyPraise for Geosynchron:
"This smart, idiosyncratic blend of cyberpunk, libertarian entrepreneurship, and social engineering will, I think, stand as a seminal work of 21st century SF." —Locus
"Takes the series one level higher, beyond mundanity to true sense-of-wonder SF, so it finally plays on the level of the masters of modern SF." —Fantasy Book Critic
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