© 2020 Ransom Stephens
Ransom’s Press Kit
Contact
• Ransom is represented by Laurie McLean, Partner, Fuse Literary. • To book Ransom: • To request a review copy, specify the title and purpose: • Ransom’s direct email is ransom at ransomstephens dot com
Mission
New perspectives and big ideas served up simply but
not simplified and always (always!) seasoned with
laughter.
Ransom’s Code:
• Keep promises • Be fair, not petty • Find a way to laugh at everything • Appreciate paradise when you find it • Don’t insist on being “right,” insist on being accurate • Value results over process but require that the process bring peace and joy • Curate your world to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio The ACLU and Nature Conservancy are given 2.5% of all book and speech profitsAbout Ransom:
Ransom Stephens, PhD, brings a physicist’s comprehensive understanding of how things work to everything he does. His career began in experimental particle physics at national laboratories and universities across the United States and Europe. As a graduate student he discovered a new type of matter, and as a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, he was on the team that discovered the top quark. He left a tenured professorship to join a wireless-web startup as Director of Advanced Technology. When it flamed out, he took a position at Keysight Technologies (then Agilent) as an Applied Electrodynamics Physicist and led a tech commando team to the solutions of problems at the intersection of science and technology. He is now a self-employed novelist and technologist. The author of five novels, a book on Neuroscience, and over 400 articles on topics ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers to high bandwidth networking, he lives in Ashland, Oregon where he works in a forested lair. He prefers beer to wine, tea to coffee, and dogs to cats. He is married to a spectacular nurse and is enormously proud of his daughter who lives in Holland.Event Bios
Speaker Introduction Bio:
Our speaker today is novelist and physicist, Ransom StephensShort Bio:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D, is a physicist, technologist, and novelist. His novels mix science and religion, environmentalism and technology, left and right wing politics, love and money, and his latest, The Book of Bastards, a bawdy fantasy, goes back to the standard: good and evil. Dr. Stephens is also a beer- drinking, cussing, Raider fan.100 word literary bio:
Ransom Stephens writes novels with characters that make you laugh and cry; stories based on uncomplicated topics like science & religion in The God Patent, technology & environmentalism in The Sensory Deception, oligarchy & anarchy in The 99% Solution, and love & money in Too Rich to Die, but he goes back to the old standard, good & evil, in The Book of Bastards, offering readers a story of bawdiness washed down with a sip of moral justice. His first popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better.200 word literary bio:
Author, speaker, and physicist, Ransom Stephens writes fantasy, science fiction, and popular science. He builds novels on big ideas with characters that make you laugh and cry and take you away for a while. His daughter once had a dream that he was a novelist hitchhiking across Europe, and he felt compelled to make her dream come true. He still blames her for the inconvenience—hitchhiking can be smelly. The Book of Bastards is his first foray into fantasy, though the genre has been his go-to as a reader for decades. Watch for the rest of the trilogy: Bastard Knights and Bastard Princess. His first novel, The God Patent, brought atheists and theists together with a low faith concept of the soul—it surprised the shit out of him. The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism, virtual reality, and idealism gone wrong. His Time Weavers series features three swashbuckling hackers who can predict the probabilities for different futures: The 99% Solution puts the Fearless Girl between oligarchs and antifa, and Too Rich to Die is set at the intersection of love and money. His first popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs: a look at the neuroscience of innovation & creativity, is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better.150 word speaker bio:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D, is a physicist, novelist, and technologist. After 15 years as a research professor in particle physics, he become the Director of Advanced Technology at a wireless web startup. He’s now a Silicon Valley consultant and author. His popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better. He writes high concept fiction that puts characters that make you laugh and cry at the center of conflicts. His latest, The Book of Bastards, is a rollicking, bawdy fantasy of chivalry and revenge. In Too Rich to Die and The 99% Solution, three keyboard-wielding musketeers take you on thrill rides that will leave you questioning centuries of world history; The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism and idealism gone wrong; and his first novel, The God Patent, is a perspective-altering story of science and religion.
© 2020 Ransom Stephens
Ransom’s Press Kit
Contact
• Ransom is represented by Laurie McLean, Partner, Fuse Literary. • To book Ransom: • To request a review copy, specify the title and purpose: • Ransom’s direct email is ransom at ransomstephens dot com
Mission
New perspectives and big ideas served up simply but
not simplified and always (always!) seasoned with
laughter.
Ransom’s Code:
• Keep promises • Be fair, not petty • Find a way to laugh at everything • Appreciate paradise when you find it • Don’t insist on being “right,” insist on being accurate • Value results over process but require that the process bring peace and joy • Curate your world to maintain a high signal-to- noise ratio The ACLU and Nature Conservancy are given 2.5% of all book and speech profitsAbout Ransom:
Ransom Stephens, PhD, brings a physicist’s comprehensive understanding of how things work to everything he does. His career began in experimental particle physics at national laboratories and universities across the United States and Europe. As a graduate student he discovered a new type of matter, and as a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, he was on the team that discovered the top quark. He left a tenured professorship to join a wireless-web startup as Director of Advanced Technology. When it flamed out, he took a position at Keysight Technologies (then Agilent) as an Applied Electrodynamics Physicist and led a tech commando team to the solutions of problems at the intersection of science and technology. He is now a self-employed novelist and technologist. The author of five novels, a book on Neuroscience, and over 400 articles on topics ranging from quantum physics to parenting teenagers to high bandwidth networking, he lives in Ashland, Oregon where he works in a forested lair. He prefers beer to wine, tea to coffee, and dogs to cats. He is married to a spectacular nurse and is enormously proud of his daughter who lives in Holland.Event Bios
Speaker Introduction Bio:
Our speaker today is novelist and physicist, Ransom StephensShort Bio:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D, is a physicist, technologist, and novelist. His novels mix science and religion, environmentalism and technology, left and right wing politics, love and money, and his latest, The Book of Bastards, a bawdy fantasy, goes back to the standard: good and evil. Dr. Stephens is also a beer- drinking, cussing, Raider fan.100 word literary bio:
Ransom Stephens writes novels with characters that make you laugh and cry; stories based on uncomplicated topics like science & religion in The God Patent, technology & environmentalism in The Sensory Deception, oligarchy & anarchy in The 99% Solution, and love & money in Too Rich to Die, but he goes back to the old standard, good & evil, in The Book of Bastards, offering readers a story of bawdiness washed down with a sip of moral justice. His first popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better.200 word literary bio:
Author, speaker, and physicist, Ransom Stephens writes fantasy, science fiction, and popular science. He builds novels on big ideas with characters that make you laugh and cry and take you away for a while. His daughter once had a dream that he was a novelist hitchhiking across Europe, and he felt compelled to make her dream come true. He still blames her for the inconvenience—hitchhiking can be smelly. The Book of Bastards is his first foray into fantasy, though the genre has been his go-to as a reader for decades. Watch for the rest of the trilogy: Bastard Knights and Bastard Princess. His first novel, The God Patent, brought atheists and theists together with a low faith concept of the soul—it surprised the shit out of him. The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism, virtual reality, and idealism gone wrong. His Time Weavers series features three swashbuckling hackers who can predict the probabilities for different futures: The 99% Solution puts the Fearless Girl between oligarchs and antifa, and Too Rich to Die is set at the intersection of love and money. His first popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs: a look at the neuroscience of innovation & creativity, is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better.150 word speaker bio:
Ransom Stephens, Ph.D, is a physicist, novelist, and technologist. After 15 years as a research professor in particle physics, he become the Director of Advanced Technology at a wireless web startup. He’s now a Silicon Valley consultant and author. His popular science book, The Left Brain Speaks The Right Brain Laughs is an irreverent take on how our brains work and how we can work them better. He writes high concept fiction that puts characters that make you laugh and cry at the center of conflicts. His latest, The Book of Bastards, is a rollicking, bawdy fantasy of chivalry and revenge. In Too Rich to Die and The 99% Solution, three keyboard-wielding musketeers take you on thrill rides that will leave you questioning centuries of world history; The Sensory Deception is a story of environmentalism and idealism gone wrong; and his first novel, The God Patent, is a perspective- altering story of science and religion.
