Chuck Hastings has worked in high-tech engineering and marketing since 1956, in CA, MN, OH, FL, OR, and WA. He began writing full-length novels in 1989, and has completed three: FU...view moreChuck Hastings has worked in high-tech engineering and marketing since 1956, in CA, MN, OH, FL, OR, and WA. He began writing full-length novels in 1989, and has completed three: FUBAR (Xlibris, 2000), Taiyaku (Xlibris, 2003) and Silicon Jockey (Xlibris, 2005). They celebrate the lives, careers, misadventures, personal growth, and loves of ordinary people in the high-tech world, ranging from near-tragedy to black comedy. Chuck has six children; five work in high-tech industry. In recent years he has divided his time between Silicon Valley and metro Seattle, and has worked as a contract technical writer and VLSI architect.view less