Ransom Stephens, PhD, is a novelist, physicist, and speaker. He has myriad technical talents involving how things work in the physical world -- quantum physics, relativity as well as electrodynamics etc -- sound processing, electronics, and stuff. The author of five novels, he understands story, narration, dialog, setting scenes, pace, and momentum. He also wrote a pop sci book on neuroscience, so add 'understands how brains work' and how people perceive art and aesthetics and why they like what they like and why critics so often miss the mark. He's also extraordinarily witty, handsome, and humble. Yes, that's it. Humble!