Erik Hanberg is a science fiction novelist. In a variety of different ways, he writes about how people interact with technology. He works in public media in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington. From 2013 to 2019, he lead a local grassroots campaign to get a park named after fellow Tacoman sci-fi author Frank Herbert. Thanks to his advocacy, if you are ever in Tacoma, you can visit Dune Peninsula on the shores of the Puget Sound.