Richard: 2392 books

Machines make faster, better, more accurate decisions than humans. They deal with facts, not emotions and they never disobey. Or do they? When Dr. Lewis Glen set out to create Guardian - a decision making supercomputer, he had all the best intentions. Unfortunately as the government takes over the...

I'm a software engineer and a damn good one. I have been working very hard to get a job done. The job is for a military client and is very important to at least the Commanding Officer at a nearby military base.The Commanding Officer told my management, “If Jason can get the current program...

1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned by the sterile trench of the city's concrete-clad river. Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow type with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world...

A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and a bartender who's as square as square can be. It's just an all-too-rare escape from the hustle and bustle of L.A for Lenny and his ex-cop friend and landlord, Red Henshaw, when they arrive...

These essays on urbanity were written between 1997 and 2014. Most, though not all, have to do with Los Angeles, a city much loved and much maligned, and justly so in either case. Although Sustainable City News, first home of most of these observations, is devoted to the structures of cities, these...

Revision H: CIA Offices located at 2929 Allen Parkway, Houston, TX 77019. As a journalist, this information is provided as a public service. Notice the excessive building security - worse than airport security. Look for vehicles in the parking garage with dark tint windows, especially the front windshield....

Rev 2B - This short ebook provides the author's opinions and accuses 12 military officers of High Treason against the United States (The Dirty Dozen). The Air Force Space Command, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the primary organization that is using microwave satellite technology...

Allison says, “Jody, I want to cram four years of high school experience into three months. I want to come here and you get to feel me up, feel me down and then screw my brains out. We'll use a lot of different positions and each gain some real sexual experience.” I say, “What you describe is...

When elder brothers insisted on their rights with undue harshness, or when the grown-up people descended from Olympus with a tiresome tale of broken furniture and torn clothes, the groundlings of the schoolroom went into retreat. In summer-time this was an easy matter; once fairly escaped into the...

More poems for the strange times we're living in.  Cultural conflicts seem to be navigating our view points today. I hope my words will add to the conversation.

As I approach the young men who are loitering in front of a bodega, I snarl, “Young punks!”The Hispanic male tends to have what is called ‘macho.’ The young Hispanic male doesn’t take insults. At least, he doesn’t take insults from a lone gabacho, when he’s with a group of his buddies.I...

"About twelve days ago, the dead started coming back to life." Samantha and Eric had been friends since university. When the world disintegrates and the dead start fighting back, they're thrown together to try and build a whole new world.

This collection of poems titled "Uplifted by Love " is a collection of poems inspired by the author's quest for spiritual enlightenment . It affords the author an opportunity to share his perceptions about life; the high concepts of love, purity and the divining of the Holy Grail whose origin...

A young man finds himself in a really bad situation. A bully thinks that the young man caused the bully trouble. The young man is in grave physical danger.The only way out of the situation is for the young man to get the protection of the one kid that the bully is afraid of. The one kid that the bully...