The author of The God Patent is. . . Ransom Stephens, Ph.D.

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Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., is a professor of particle physics turned writer and speaker. He has worked on experiments at SLAC, Fermilab, CERN, and Cornell; discovered a new type of matter and was on the team that discovered the top quark. During the tech boom that ended in 2001, he directed patent development for a wireless web startup and, a few years later, became an expert on timing noise (aka, jitter) which is what paid his bills while he wrote The God Patent.

Ransom lives in Petaluma, California and makes a living by writing novels, giving speeches, producing and MCing literary events, helping engineers solve problems, and teaching writing seminars. He is the author of over 200 articles on impossible subjects like quantum physics, the future of publishing and parenting teenagers.

His first novel, The God Patent, is set in the battle between science and religion over the nature of the soul and the origin of the universe. The story is wrapped around the role of faith in both science and religion and concludes with a surly adolescent math prodigy’s discovery of the nature of the eternal soul.

Novels are capsules of thought and reading one is akin to reading the author’s mind. It’s an intimate experience that ought to breed familiarity. To that end, Ransom would like it if you were to share your thoughts with him: ransom @ ransomstephens dot com.

He would love to visit your book club, give a speech to your organization, or collaborate with you on something.

Should it ever be relevant: he prefers beer to wine, tea to coffee, heavy metal rock to jazz, and attends every Oakland Raiders home game.

Ransom’s literary web page is here - including his notes on the craft of writing,

his public speaking page is here, and if you want to peruse everything the guy does, start here.

And please keep in touch: ransom @ ransomstephens . com

The Future of Science in Literature

Not science fiction, not allusions to science and extrapolation (e.g., Michael Crichton), and absolutely never poorly informed inaccurate pseudoscientific plot twisting. It’s the real thing: Fiction that incorporates authentic science and technology like quantum physics and neural networks. The science is integral to the plot and the passions of the characters, it’s accurate, fascinating easily understood by laymen, and in a setting with ample narrative tension.