Are You One of the
World's Most Intelligent Readers?
Hi, I'm Randy Ingermanson, physicist, novelist, and all around geek. But that's way more than enough about me. Let's talk about you for a bit.
Since you're here, there's a high probability that you're one of the World's Most Intelligent Readers. Which of the following are true about you?
That's me on all four counts, and if that's mostly you, then we're probably a lot alike. A few random facts about me:
- I have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley.
- I've published six novels and won a bunch of writing awards.
- I run the software engineering group of a biotech company.
- I like suspense fiction -- techno and legal thrillers and historical suspense.
- I'm pretty sure I'm a Christian but one of my friends thinks I'm going to hell.
- I'm famous among novelists for my Snowflake method of writing a novel.
Yeah, yeah, I'm probably dangerously disturbed. So what? If you need to know more about my personal life than that, you are incurably nosy and you can scratch that itch by visiting my personal page with all the usual boring stuff about where I grew up and what kind of ice cream I like. Have fun reading that, if you care.
I write "Genius in Jeopardy" books. Take a few smart-but-weird characters, put them in danger, and keep them there till the last page. Along the way, listen to them talk and try to learn something about the Meaning of Life. Most of my characters are contrary cusses whom I often don't agree with, but I tend to learn more from people like that, so I give them some line when they want to rant.
I often write about life at "The intersection of Science Avenue and Faith Boulevard" because that's the corner of the universe where I live. I grew up in an ultra-conservative church that didn't have much use for science. Then I went off to physics grad school at Berkeley where it was pretty much the opposite. I'm still putting all that together. I believe in God but I don't believe nearly so much in the church. I also believe in science, but when it comes right down to it, I'd rather be writing fiction than solving equations or coding software.
On this site, I'll talk about anything that interests me. If it interests me, it may interest you. Let's talk about cool topics! Life is too short to waste time on the boring stuff.
Best regards,
Randy Ingermanson, Ph.D.
