David Louis Edelman
- Age: 38
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: Novelist/Web Programmer
- Location: Reston : Virginia : United States
About Me
David Louis Edelman is a science fiction novelist, blogger, and web programmer. His first book, "Infoquake," was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel and named Barnes & Noble's Top SF Novel of 2006. His latest novel, "MultiReal," was released by Pyr in Summer 2008. He is a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Writer for 2008. In addition to writing novels, Edelman has programmed websites for the U.S. Army, the FBI, ExxonMobil, and Rolls-Royce; taught software to the U.S. Congress and the World Bank; written articles for the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun; and directed the marketing departments of biometric and e-commerce companies.
Interests
- science fiction
- SF
- fantasy
- cyberpunk
- creating writing
- web programming
- web design
- ColdFusion
- PHP
- ASP
- HTML
- XML
- JavaScript
- WordPress
Favorite Books
- Lloyd Alexander
- Isaac Asimov
- Paul Auster
- Nicholson Baker
- John Barth
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ray Bradbury
- Karel Capek
- Michael Chabon
- Arthur C Clarke
- Don DeLillo
- Philip K. Dick
- Stephen Dixon
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- Greg Egan
- William Gibson
- Robert Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Frank Herbert
- John Irving
- Franz Kafka
- Jerzy Kosinski
- David Mamet
- George R.R. Martin
- China Mieville
- Haruki Murakami
- Tim O'Brien
- Richard Powers
- Thomas Pynchon
- Philip Roth
- J.K. Rowling
- John Steinbeck
- Neal Stephenson
- Robert Stone
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- John Updike
- Vernor Vinge
- Kurt Vonnegut
- and H.G. Wells
