For an age, humanity has borrowed from caches of alien technology found in space. Among these artefacts are portals known as Stations, which our spacecraft now use to traverse the galaxy. The ‘Angels’ who created this technology vanished aeons ago, but they left behind powerful enemies with long memories. These are about to target the Stations with a wave of destruction – and nearby worlds will suffer the same fate. One Station orbits the distant planet Kaspar, now occupied by scientists and armed militia who monitor life on the surface. Here, ignorant of our existence, the only known sentient species other than humankind is slowly evolving. But things are about to change. As devastation sweeps the galaxy, Kaspar’s mysterious ‘Citadel’ may be key to repelling this threat. But at what cost to its native inhabitants – and its human guardians?

ORPHANS OF DEEP SPACE . . . They’re outlaws now. Created to serve a function grown obsolete, haunted by the holographic ghost of their father, Ubu and Maria have lived their entire lives skating along the edge of extinction. Now they and their ship Runaway are in flight both from the law and from a predatory clan of competitors. They’re going to come back rich, or not at all. But what they find in the depths of space isn’t wealth, but a secret so startling that Ubu and Maria will need every last reserve of guile, cunning, and intelligence just to survive . . . “No one can accuse Williams of failing to grow with each new major work . . . Straight-forward space adventure with a strong picaresque flavor. The pacing is brisk, the high-tech details vivid, the rewards to readers considerable.” ---Booklist “Williams colorfully invokes the life of the trader families and their honkeytonk space stations. With its emphasis on youth, beauty, sex, and mischief, [ANGEL STATION] also conjures a contemporary mood agreeably distinct from its futuristic settings.” --Publishers Weekly “Williams has it all.” --Analog “Williams is a skillfully literate addition to the stylish new generation of science fiction writers.” ---Chicago Tribune

Prayer Stations There Are 12 of Them: Praise and Worship Family Children Finance Healing Binding Satan Leadership Unity Prisoner/Captives Bondage Addiction Salvation Examples of Prayer Stations: (1-3) JESUS Jehovah Elohim The Lord Is God Deuteronomy 10:17 Prayer Station I Praise and Worship Psalm 66, 113, 145 Hallow His Name Holy Love Righteous Faithful Justice Mercy Grace Long Suffering Goodness Truth Forgiving Omniscience Omnipotence Omnipresence Immutable Infinite Wisdom His Glory Creator The Word Potentate King of kings Lord of lords Majesty Worthy Exalted Alpha Omega New Covenant Atonement Redemption Father Son Holy Spirit The Whole Armor Ephesians 6:11-18 JESUS Jehovah T'Sur The Lord Our Strength Psalm 19:14 Prayer Station II Family Ephesians 5:22-33 Psalm 115:14-15 Salvation Will of God Love Unity Blessings Communication Forgiveness Conflict Resolution Trust Stability Marriage Singles Boundaries Widows Single Parents Infidelity Divorce Protection Abuse Extended Family Aging Parents Caregivers Foster Care Bereavement Abortions Satanic Attacks Feet Shod with the Gospel of Peace JESUS Jehovah Nissi The Lord Is My Banner Exodus 17:15 Prayer Station III Children Ephesians 6:1-4 Genesis 22:17-18 Salvation Blessed-Loved-Happy Stability Focus Favor Wisdom Integrity Education Scholars Head not the Tail Crime Safety Protection Physical Mental Abuse Peer Pressure Adoption Low Self Esteem Teen Suicide Rebellion Withdrawal Abstinence Boundaries Loneliness Abductions Incest Fornication Child Pornography Prostitution Homosexuality Internet Scams Helmet of Salvation People of all ages, all stations of life and all types of dispositions are asking for guidelines to focused prayer. Prayer Stations are not just designated locations where believers go, expecting to receive results from God the Father in the name of Jesus, each Prayer Station has "focal points" that keeps the believer focused while praying. Prayer Stations allows the believer to go outside his/her comfort zones into praying beyond their intellect in the Spirit. This book allows the believer to study each Prayer Station with supporting scriptures so that they may pray the will of God effectively, keep a written journal and to reflect on how the content of each Prayer Station has impacted their lives. Prayer Stations can be used also on a professional level in counseling sessions, the dynamics of teams, home devotionals and personal use. Prayer Stations will take a believer from no prayer life to a greater dimension of knowing God.

“Fast-paced action . . . first-rate sf space adventure” (Library Journal) from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn. Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying—which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the galaxy utilize the power of the “angels,” the Earth-based Pax empire views the emissions as a threat that could be used to subvert humanity. Academic Jereko Kosta is pressed into service by the Pax to spy on the Empyrean, joining the crew of a ship actively hunting the particles. But what he learns turns out to be both scientifically fascinating and morally frightening. When the Pax make an aggressive move that may lead to all-out war with the Empyrean, Kosta is the only one who can stop the conflict between the human powers and force them to see that the angels they’re about to fight over are far from holy . . . Timothy Zahn combines provocative ethical questions with the same level of vivid sci-fi action that made his Star Wars: Thrawn a New York Times bestseller to deliver “a serious SF novel sneakily posing as an enormous golden-age thrill ride” (Locus).

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries. Thirty-three chapters from an international group of scholars explore topics ranging from the representation of the Middle Ages in nineteenth-century opera to medievalism in contemporary video game music, thereby connecting disparate musical forms across typical musicological boundaries of chronology and geography. While some chapters focus on key medievalist works such as Orff's Carmina Burana or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, others explore medievalism in the oeuvre of a single composer (e.g. Richard Wagner or Arvo P�rt) or musical group (e.g. Led Zeppelin). The topics of the individual chapters include both well-known works such as John Boorman's film Excalibur and also less familiar examples such as Eduard Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys. The authors of the chapters approach their material from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives, including historical musicology, popular music studies, music theory, and film studies, examining the intersections of medievalism with nationalism, romanticism, ideology, nature, feminism, or spiritualism. Taken together, the contents of the Handbook develop new critical insights that venture outside traditional methodological constraints and provide a capstone and point of departure for future scholarship on music and medievalism.