David Louis Edelman is an American novelist and web programmer.

He was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from Villa Park High School in 1989.

He majored in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated in 1993.

Over the years, Edelman's programming work has included websites for the U.S. Army and the FBI and teaching software for the U.S. Congress and the World Bank.

[3] His first book, Infoquake (2006), was nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel[4] and named Barnes & Noble's Top SF Novel of 2006.