Science Fiction Double Feature…
Sci-fi not being my genre, I fall short of offering the most astute review this work deserves. but a recent novel gives a nod to the impact of the big D on the Information Age (and, to my enormous relief, bears no resemblance to the fiction project I just completed.)
David Louis Edelman’s debut depicts a news world where reporters and pundits (a.k.a. “drudges” are not beholden to colossal news corporations. Infoquake makes the media the sole domain of independent journalists “with their own larger-than-life personalities and political agendas”.
“I wanted to tip my hat to Drudge in the novel,” Edelman states in last year’s press release. “When I wrote the first drafts…the Clinton impeachment scandal was in full bloom. Here was a private citizen armed with little more than a personal computer, and yet his inside reporting echoed to the highest levels of government…”
Barnes & Noble billed Infoquake the “Best Science Fiction Novel of 2006″.
by RegoPark - 9:02 pm
