Ransom Stephens

Ransom Stephens is a former physics professor and a fifth-generation Californian. He spent 15 years conducting cutting-edge particle physics research and taught at the University of Texas at Arlington. He then moved into high-tech to work for a wireless web start-up. He’s now a Silicon Valley consultant, novelist, and science writer. Ransom writes science fiction, fantasy and popular science. His latest novel, The 99% Solution, is a hilarious, swashbuckling, intercontinental, inter-dimensional thrill ride that will leave you questioning centuries of world politics; The God Patent is a perspective-altering novel of science and religion; and The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism, virtual reality, and idealism gone wrong. His first nonfiction book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs: a look at the neuroscience of innovation & creativity in art, science & life, brings you up to date on how your brain works, how to work it better, and does so with plenty of wisecracks.

He lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife and dogs.