Chris Baker is a writer and editor living in Oakland, California, USA. This is his first piece of speculative fiction to be accepted for publication. His journalism has appeared in Wired, Rolling Stone, and Slate. His writing about video games has appeared in Vulture, Kill Screen, Gamasutra, Giant Robot, and the 1-Up zine. He explores the origin stories of the latest trends in the zeitgeist in his newsletter Pop Cultural Precursors.
