At the Edge of Reality Lies Madness
David Louis Edelman’s business science fiction saga that began with Infoquake and MultiReal comes to a stunning conclusion with Geosynchron, the last book of the Jump 225 trilogy.
The Defense and Wellness Council is enmeshed in full-scale civil war between Len Borda and the mysterious Magan Kai Lee. Quell has escaped from prison and is stirring up rebellion in the Islands with the aid of a brash young leader named Josiah. Jara and the apprentices of the Surina/Natch MultiReal Fiefcorp still find themselves fighting off legal attacks from Margaret Surina’s unscrupulous heirs — even though MultiReal has completely vanished.
The quest for the truth will lead to the edges of civilization, from the tumultuous society of the Pacific Islands to the lawless orbital colony of 49th Heaven; and through the depths of time, from the hidden agenda of the Surina family to the real truth behind the Autonomous Revolt that devastated humanity hundreds of years ago.
Meanwhile, Natch has awakened in a windowless prison with nothing but a haze of memory to clue him in as to how he got there. He’s still receiving strange hallucinatory messages from Margaret Surina and the nature of reality is buckling all around him. When the smoke clears, Natch must make the ultimate decision — whether to save a world that has scorned and discarded him, or to save the only person he has ever loved: himself.
Published Editions
eBook
Published by Baen
ISBN 978-1-62579-749-0
Audiobook
Published by Audible Studios
Narrated by Tom Dheere
Trade Paperback
Published by Pyr
500 pages
ISBN-10: 1591027926
ISBN-13: 978-1591027928
Out of Print
Polish Translation
Published by Fabryka Słów
465 pages
ISBN: 978-83-7574-601-3
Russian Translation
Coming 2023-24 from Eksmo in paper, ebook, and audio
Excerpt: The Prisoners
Margaret Surina is rejuvenated.
She hovers wraithlike in the thin membrane between existence and nothingness. Skin the olive tinge of the Indian subcontinent, robe a billowing tent of blue and green, fingers long and precise as praying mantises. Hair tar black but streaked with white, manifestation of the paradox behind those sapphire eyes.
That Natch can see her at all is miracle enough. In this place he has no eyes, no face, no corporeal presence whatsoever. It is a cocoon of pure mind, where there are no points on the compass and where even time loops upon itself and disappears in a dizzying spiral of infinite improbability. Here in this place, Margaret is merely a perception of a perception, like an awareness or a manufactured memory.
Natch wants to ask her, Don’t you realize you’re dead?
- #4 on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist’s Top 10 SFF Books of 2010
- #5 on Bookgasm's 5 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2010
- #9 on Barnes & Noble Explorations' Best Science Fiction Releases of 2010
- On SFFWorld's Top 5 SF Novels of the Year 2010
"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... An A+ and so far the best core-SF novel I've read in 2010."
Fantasy Book Critic
"The Jump 225 trilogy is a must-read, an instant classic and a work of SF that will help define this first decade of the 21st century, and could cast a long shadow for many years to come."
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