Brendan I. Koerner is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of two award-winning works of narrative nonfiction, "The Skies Belong to Us" and "Now the Hell Will Start." A former columnist for both The New York Times and Slate who was named one of Columbia Journalism Review's "Ten Young Writers on the Rise," he has also written for Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications.