The God Patent
Written by Ransom Stephens
Narrated by Luke Daniels
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
When electrical engineers Ryan McNear and Foster Reed co-authored two patents for company cash incentives, they thought it was all just a joke. One described the soul as a software algorithm and the other described the Big Bang as a power generator.
But when the company crashes, McNear finds himself divorced, desperately hard-up, and estranged from his son. As he rebuilds his life, McNear discovers Reed has used their nonsensical patents to draw in top-tier energy investors. A patent war erupts, and McNear is suddenly immersed in something much bigger than a personal argument with his old friend: a battle between hard science and evangelical religion. To fix the mistakes of his past, he will have to risk everything—his reputation, his livelihood, and even his sanity—to be with the son he loves.
Set in the age-old culture war between science and religion, The God Patent is a modern story that deftly blends scientific theory with one man’s struggle to discover his soul.
Ransom Stephens
Ransom Stephens is a former physics professor and fifth-generation Californian. After earning his PhD from the University of California–Santa Barbara, he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and conducted cutting-edge research at high energy physics labs across the United States and Europe. He then moved into the high-tech arena, leaving academia to work for a wireless web start-up. He’s now a science writer and high-tech consultant living in Northern California’s Wine country, though he prefers beer. More about Stephens can be found at his website, http://www.ransomstephens.com.
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Reviews for The God Patent
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Variety of male and female voices well done. Variety of concepts. Imagination aided via mostly showed not told. Gripping.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A many layered journey for the characters and the reader - archetypes and everyday human situations blend to make a story bigger than a single individual's struggle yet at the same time deeply personal .
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Novel written by an ex-physicist, featuring a character loosely based on Emmy Noether. An extra half-star for both discussing and reproducing Feynman diagrams in the text.The rather silly plot revolves about a patent that is taken too seriously and to absurd pseudo-scientific lengths by religious particle physicist; hence the title. The rest of the story concerns a quest for maturity and responsibility of an ex-software engineer on the run from the law, who bonds with Noether's effigy and a rebellious teenage prodigee over, of all things, Feynman's QED. Characters simplistic, but story somewhat engaging.