"Edelman, Doctorow and Stross are, like all great science fiction writers, not really writing about the future. They're responding to the present, and in the present, economic science is driving societal decisions every bit as much as any hard-science technology. In fact, economics drives the hard science, in that we only get the technologies that look profitable. Edelman's vision in
this regard is particularly sharp and particularly on-point. There's a certain amount of satire going on here, but Edelman is quite serious about his world, which makes it all the easier to invest in his characters and settings. "Kleffel has already opinioned elsewhere that Infoquake "will be one of the most praised first novels this year." Meanwhile, Edleman continues to podcast chapters from his novel, post excerpts, and grow his fascinating background articles about the Infoquake world. (Oh, and completely unrelated, he blogs about his recent trip to France.)
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