The starchild compact, p.40
The Starchild Compact, page 40
"Allahu Akbar … Allahu Akbar … Allahu Akbar … Allahu Akbar (Allah is great… Allah is great… Allah is great… Allah is great… )." Saeed intoned the early call to prayer over the loud speakers surrounding the encampment. "Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah (I bear witness that there is no god except Allah)." Saeed repeated this. "Ashadu anna Saeedan Rasool Allah (I bear witness that Saeed is the messenger of God)." Saeed repeated the phrase, and smiled as his words echoed across the encampment. These words would have been blasphemy three years earlier, but Allah had revealed Himself to Saeed in a special way. He reviewed the words of his revelation: Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him we shall bestow a vast reward.
As he finished the call to prayer, two thousand Jihadist warriors prostrated themselves on the still cold ground…as did Saeed.
After prayers, Saeed stood and entered his tent, where he took in a simple meal of cracked grain and water. Several minutes later as the air temperature began its climb, a soft whoosh brought him out of his tent. A strange craft had landed in the space before him. Like the Merkavah, it was saucer-shaped and deep black, so black, in fact, that it almost looked like a hole in the air. A hatch opened and a ramp extended to the ground. Moments later General Suleiman walked down the ramp and approached Saeed. At one-hundred-eighty-five centimeters, the General towered over Saeed's one-hundred-sixty-two. He bowed his head respectfully and gestured to the spacecraft.
"I bring you victory, Sahib!"
Saeed lifted his right arm into the air, and his robe fell back revealing his leather-cup-covered stump. "Allahu Akbar!" His call rang across the encampment.
Two thousand voices answered back, "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!"
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Dr. Robert G. Williscroft served twenty-three years in the U.S. Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He commenced his service as an enlisted nuclear Submarine Sonar Technician in 1961, was selected for the Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program in 1966, and graduated from University of Washington in Marine Physics and Meteorology in 1969. He returned to nuclear submarines as the Navy's first Poseidon Weapons Officer. Subsequently, he served as Navigator and Diving Officer on both catamaran mother vessels for the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle. Then he joined the Submarine Development Group One out of San Diego as the Officer-in-Charge of the Test Operations Group, conducting "deep-ocean surveillance and data acquisition" – which forms the basis for his Cold War novel Operation Ivy Bells.
In NOAA Dr. Williscroft directed diving operations throughout the Pacific and Atlantic. As a certified diving instructor for both the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) and the Multinational Diving Educators Association (MDEA), he taught over 3,000 individuals both basic and advanced SCUBA diving. He authored four diving books, developed the first NAUI drysuit course, developed advanced curricula for mixed gas and other specialized diving modes, and developed and taught a NAUI course on the Math and Physics of Advanced Diving. His doctoral dissertation for California Coast University, A System for Protecting SCUBA Divers from the Hazards of Contaminated Water was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce and distributed to Port Captains Worldwide. He also served three shipboard years in the high Arctic conducting scientific baseline studies, and thirteen months at the geographic South Pole in charge of National Science Foundation atmospheric projects.
Dr. Williscroft has written extensively on terrorism and related subjects. He is the author of a popular book on current events published by Pelican Publishing: The Chicken Little Agenda – Debunking Experts' Lies, now in its second edition as an eBook, and a new children's book series, Starman Jones, in collaboration with Dr. Frank Drake, world famous director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the SETI Institute.
Dr. Williscroft’s novel, Slingshot, is in preproduction. It is a prequel to The Starchild Compact, and tells the story of the construction of the World’s first Space Launch Loop. He is currently working on The Iapetus Federation, a sequel to The Starchild Compact, that tells the story of the World falling under the rule of a planet-wide Islamic Caliphate, where the Founders establish the Iapetus Federation, a loose federation of free off-world communities that operates under an updated model based on the U.S. Constitution, and carries on the traditions of free enterprise and individual accountability throughout the Solar System.
Dr. Williscroft is an active member of the venerable Adventurers' Club of Los Angeles, where he is the Editor of the Club's monthly magazine. He lives in Centennial, Colorado, with his wife, Jill, whom he met upon his return from the South Pole in 1982 and finally married in 2010, and their twin high school boys.
Other books by this author
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Current events:
The Chicken Little Agenda – Debunking "Experts'" Lies
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The Starman Jones Series:
Starman Jones: A Relativity Birthday Present
Starman Jones Goes to the Dogs (scheduled for release in late 2014)
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Operation Ivy Bells
Slingshot (scheduled for release in late 2014)
The Iapetus Federation (scheduled for release in mid 2015)
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