Ed - Libros y biografía

Duty First is a penetrating account of a year inside one of America's premier schools for leadership -- the United States Military Academy -- as it celebrates the bicentennial of its founding. Ed Ruggero,...

Somethings are so small…Yet some of the most important things, the really big things can seem too small to notice. Billions of events play out under our noses.Small but significant.And some are small...

How is life working without tech?People aren't happy with how  technology has shaped the world.It's caused a backlash, a relapse into darker days that is now seen as a good thing.But that won't stop people...

How much help do you want from computers?I mean, really want?When technology makes life easy for you, it's sweet. And Jess's new home is marvel of modern technology—a smarter than smart home. And it's...

Everyone has a theory about luck, wanting to attract good luck and keep bad away.When you make your living riding wild horses or, even worse, crazed bulls in a rodeo, you know that good luck isn't just...

He stands out from the crowd.A gunfighter can't just pass through a town like normal people do. He'll find his reputation precedes him. When a saloon girl expresses a need for a paid killer—well, life...

Summer heat and sadness.The chain motels perch all along the US highways and freeways and cluster where they intersect, nestled among convenience stores and gas stations. Convenient, soulless, and relatively...

Telling tales has consequencesBrad rents a room in a Cambodian fishing village to write a Caribbean story.Wanting to impress a bar girl, he tells her the story and learns how well strange tales travel...

Life gets crowded on the open roadJason loves the open spaces of the western US. There is contemplative quiet that comes with crossing the endless miles. And that's his job, traveling, doing mobile repair...

"It's not the destination, it's the journey."That little bit of wisdom is according to none other than Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unfortunately, Ralph never managed to drive the back roads of the southwestern...

The nearly story of the world's best Caribbean boat bumRon Añejo loves his carefree lifestyle in the Caribbean, sailing his barely seaworthy wooden boat from one dodgy job to the next. It's a life that...

If the crime is challenging and tangled, it's a proper crime.When Sherry Proper latches onto a crime, begins digging deep, she doesn't let go—not until she knows what is going on. Some people don't like...

Zombie's are people too.At least in this future. And there are ways to deal with the assimilation of humans in a zombie dominated world, hopefully assimilation without consumption.People can be innovative...

Abandoning the inexorable pathEscaping from a perfect habitat into an imperfect world, an inhospitable environment seems like a really bad idea. And yet, there might be really good reasons to make that...

It's time to take a break from the world you think you know and to step through into another one. These five stories offer a guided tour of new possibilities and different places. They rely on magic,...

Ambition drives people to succeed.Ambition can make the price of success irrelevant.Ambition can kill your soul.Sherry Proper works hard to keep her life simple. She wants to stick to the important things:...

The magnetic pull of your opposites can provide an unfathomable attraction. To put it simply -- you know better. Still, that attraction is as powerful as the lure of the dark and giving in to it is as...

Imagine a future world that pushes magic into the fringes of respectability. Using logic and reason, avoiding superstition is the only way humanity can make progress — morally and ethically.Imagine a...

They hit the road for adventure.Three friends want to shake off the doldrums and search out something new.Adventure is a rocky path and meeting an intriguing hooker, a Scorpio, in Las Vegas splits them...

It's a very bad landing.An otherworldly creature in pursuit of an escaped criminal crashes his ship in (where else?) rural New Mexico.  Now the chase is on. The self-appointed Earth Defense Force, a local...

They come in fast and block out the sun.Dust storms pop up out of nowhere and are a danger for drivers on the open highways of the southwest.But when you can't see what is in front of you maybe, with...

"A man oughta be able to walk home drunk without some damn fool running him off the road, you know."The hub of life in the islands is the local rum shop and though living in the Windward Islands in the...

What do you do when things go surreal?When things blow up on Matt Cramer, they can be messy. This time the mess might be blood. Whatever it is, right now that bloody mess is all over the walls.A newly...

If the corruption runs deep and the crime is dark, it might be a proper crime…Sherry Proper is no stranger to the dark and dangerous world of crime. But when her legal research uncovers a tenuous connection...

It's the entrepreneurs leading the space raceColonies require support and expansion to other planets means shipping supplies to them. Pirates love long supply chains and not even Elon Musk is invulnerable,...

Where does it go?Taking a close look at things, even dumpsters, can be dangerous. It can give you ideas.Ideas are dangerous.Slippery.Dave's life is humdrum and that gives him time to take a real close...

Boats are funny animals, especially old boats, and the sailors who ply the waters in them are even funnier. This series of columns from a monthly column written for Caribbean Compass takes a humorous...

A fictional review of a fictional long poem by a very fictional poet... But more importantly, the absurd and touching tale of how a man's crusade to uncover the cause of potato bruising led an academic...

Getting away from it all can be hardWhen an LA private investigator heads to Colorado to see an old buddy and get in a little fishing, he walks squarely into a murder investigation. It's like he never...

How would you know when the last of anything is gone?Everything has an expiration date, a point that it simply is no more. Most of the time we aren't even aware we've reached that time until we look around...