A mysterious force from the past comes from outer space and creates massive changes on every world it impacts. Earth undergoes tremendous geopolitical and environmental effects, which cause the survivors to face unknown challenges.Terminal Reset takes place in a Universe identical to our own. Familiar locations and situations suddenly take on new relevance.PLEASE NOTE:THIS BOOK IS THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF 'TERMINAL RESET - THE COMING OF THE WAVE' OMNIBUS EDITION AN...

Dr. David Harding Stared in the Mirror, and Could Not Believe What He Was Seeing!Dr. David Harding is an Astrophysicist who discovers a mysterious force on a collision course with Earth. As The Wave hits our planet, its effects have devastating consequences. Governments topple. The world is poised on the brink of nuclear devastation. The effects are of an apocalyptic scale.The ongoing strife between the countries of Earth, ...

A.E. Williams presents his thoughts on a variety of subjects of interest to thinking persons.Bringing together a lifetime of experience as a science fiction author, former aerospace materials engineer, cyber-security expert and irascible genius, Williams provides big picture views on our place in the Universe.Based on a series of blog articles written for the "Speculative Fiction Showcase" and including material reviewed while performing research for his se...

UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES: FANTASTICAL SHORT SHORTS VOL. I is a collection of fantasy shorts written by A.E. Williams featuring characters situated in the midst of danger, self-discovery and magical flight.In "Behemoth of Power", a witch inherits the magical prowess of her ancestors and seeks to avenge her family's line by defeating the harbingers of death, a powerful clan of evil witches."Necromancy" features a protagonist who investigates the murder of several young women by ...

First published in 1943, this third edition of Barnardo of Stepney was published in 1966, when it was a hundred years since a young man of twenty arrived in London on his way from Dublin to China. A change of plan delayed his departure and, instead of becoming a missionary in the foreign field, he stayed here to become the most remarkable freelance in awakening humanity’s fight against poverty, and the beloved Father of Nobody’s Children.Of the thousands of men and women w...

What do we expect from our words? And what if those very expectations were not just wrong, but dangerous, and dangerous precisely because they kept us from moving toward justice? In a provocative and sustained argument, Professor Williams forwards the claim that our present ideas of language are a closed loop that inevitably spirals toward violence. By turning to views that were common in the ages before the modern world, but now lost, he suggests not a new but an old perspective o...

Industrial Energy Systems Handbook is a supplementary reading resource for candidates undertaking the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) Certified Industrial Energy Professional (CIEP) program.Understanding how the various industrial systems work is key to identifying savings opportunities. An overview is given of the global energy situation as at the time of publication which cements the necessity to improve energy intensive processes to become more optimized.Comprehens...

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. Insights are gleaned through the prism of the philosophical, built, performative, political, and int...

WINNER OF READERS FAVORITE SCI-Fi FANTASY CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2019With Timothy Mean’s amazing imagination and time machine, anything and anywhere is possible! Join Timothy on a magical rhyming adventure as he skips through time and pranks with pirates, gets daring with dragons, and even teases a T-Rex!“It’s Monday. Hip hip hooray! Where shall we travel in time today?With Timothy Mean, every day is a rhyme in time!

This work is a science fiction short story (7,777 words). It also appears in Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.In the year 2020, astronomers discover a previously unknown asteroid that will strike Earth in exactly 666 days. Because of its massive size, it is impossible to deflect or destroy it with the available technology, and it is clear that the impending impact will be an extinction event. While most governments do...