Ransom Stephens captured his readers' attentions with sex, drugs, quantum physics and artificial intelligence in his bestselling first novel The God Patent. Now, in his latest book The Sensory Deception, the Petaluma resident tackles the winner-take-all race for the ultimate gamer experience.

Ransom Stephens joins host Gil Mansergh for an entertaining conversation about creating an alternative universe not all that different from our own.