Mark Niemann-Ross is a Portland-based writer of hard science-fiction with an emphasis on the impact of technology on society. He is a two-time winner of Analog Magazine Reader's Choice Award, has appeared in Stupefying Stories, narrated audio books, and is working on his first novel, a murder mystery solved by a refrigerator. Mark is a co-author with Richard A. Lovett; together they have published "Phantom Sense and Other Stories" under the Strange Wolf Press imprint. He is also the author of a children's book; "Patches Catches the Sargo County Cattle Rustler." During the day he manages develo...