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John Scalzi Interviews David Louis Edelman

Noted author and blogger John Scalzi (he of Old Man’s War and the Ghost Brigades) interviews David Louis Edelman, author of Infoquake, on his AOL blog By the Way. While talking about writing the future of business, Edelman says:

“The thing to remember about predicting the future is that human nature doesn’t change. We’re still the same people that Adam Smith wrote about. We’re still the same people that Shakespeare wrote about. In fact, as Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke pointed out in 2001, we really haven’t changed much since that first dude figured out how to hit the other dude on the head with a bone. In some ways, all of human history is just one long story about two groups squabbling over limited resources.”

Read the whole interview here, and be sure to stop by David’s Infoquake page, where he offers chapter excerpts, podcasts, and numerous background articles about the world of the novel, several of them exclusive to the website. Also see the new group blog Deep Genre, of which Edelman is a founding member.

Update: Rick Kleffel has just published his review of Infoquake over on the Agony Column:

“…a very solid and satisfying read… Edelman has one hell of a hoot taking high-tech marketing out to draw and quarter it with style and panache. Infoquake is a very funny and insightful novel of modern economics through a futuristic funhouse mirror… Edelman’s future has lots of interesting nods and textures. The kind of virtual life and secondary worlds that have become part-and-parcel of post cyberpunk science fiction are here in layers. …delivers a solid and satisfying science fiction novel.”

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Alexis Glynn Latner Comes to Alabama; John Meaney Phones it in!

I spent a delightful six and a half hours today with new Pyr author Alexis Glynn Latner, whose Hurricane Moon will be part of our Spring/Summer 2007 season. Hurricane Moon is a wonderful novel of hard science planetary colonization, a topic which I think may come back into forefront popularity in the wake of the Titan probe, new discovers of and concerning extremophiles, the recent profusion of extrasolar planets being discovered in the real universe every day, etc… It’s a fantastic novel, natch, but I’ve never met Alexis in person apart from email and phone conversations. She’s in Georgia visiting relatives and very kindly made the trip across state lines into my neck of the woods for lunch (Bottega), coffee (Starbucks), a trip to Vulcan (not the planet), and a long afternoon discussion of science, science fiction, systematic theology, post humanity, and wildlife. Here is Alexis in my library, since I sadly forgot to bring the camera with us on our trip to pay homage to the Roman god.

Meanwhile, Mu space expert, Shotokan black belt, and genius author extraordinaire John Meaney is the subject of the latest Dragon page audio interview. Evo and Michael talk to John about his Nulapeiron sequence (Paradox, Context, and Resolution), his upcoming Pyr novel, To Hold Infinity, quantum physics, martial arts, dead bones, and other projects. John is his usual enthusiastic, engaging self and the interview is well worth a listen.

Update: Alexis has the cover story in the July/August issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Set in the same universe as Hurricane Moon, you can read an excerpt of “Witherspin” online now.

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