Dirk Hanson is a freelance science reporter and novelist. His two previous books, The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microlectronics Revolution and The Incursion: A Novel, were reviewed in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, and other publications. His work has appeared in Scientific American, Huffington Post, AlterNet, California, and elsewhere. He currently edits the Addiction Inbox blog.