David Crum: 4 books

Everyone hates to wait and wait and wait. We wait at the laundromat, we wait for the Doctor, Dentist, and x-rays, and we wait at the airport, bus stop, and the taxi to arrive. We wait between classes, in traffic when the road is blocked, for car repair, and on Black Friday we wait to get the best...

Everyone hates to wait and wait and wait. We wait at the laundromat, we wait for the Doctor, Dentist, and x-rays, and we wait at the airport, bus stop, and the taxi to arrive. We wait between classes, in traffic when the road is blocked, for car repair, and on Black Friday we wait to get the best...

This is basically an account of Davids combat experience with the US Marine Corps infantry in Vietnam. Through the years, David often spoke of these experiences, only to hear others tell his stories with various discrepancies. David wrote this book to help others keep the details accurate. The war experience is bracketed by information of his life before and after Vietnam.

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism...