Interview with Kendall Williams, Author of Thing Beyond Reason

What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Thing Beyond Reason: First Contact, the Becoming?

The story or stories behind the story involve my own experiences, some miraculous and unfathomable, some tragic, and some full of hope… and all wanting to come out!

If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Thing Beyond Reason: First Contact, the Becoming, what would they be?

How about “Unchained Melody” by the Righteous Brothers or “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri, since we are talking about transcending time.

What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write?

Plenty of fiction novels, sci-fi of course, lots of history, and the classic “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, ever at the ready. But geopolitics has been a passion, and quantum physics, psychology, and philosophy, especially Plato. In sci-fi, everything is relevant, and when realism is needed… a must!

What books are on your TBR pile right now?

“Winter World” by A.G. Riddle and “Stone Spring” by Stephen Baxter.

What scene in your book was your favorite to write?

Many favorites, but this one puts Jason the hero protagonist in the heart of it: AT NASA JET Propulsion Laboratory Mission Control, the JPL Team was going through their regular rover routine, checking systems, battery life, and the video feeds when someone shouted, “He’s back!” Now they were all pressed in around the monitors as the Miracle Man in his blue and gray suit walked up and stopped. “Well,” he said, “I guess you have been wondering where I have been?” He seemed to chuckle, and then said, “Well, it is a long story, one that most of you are not ready to understand.” He seemed to consider what he had just said. At JPL, they pressed closer. No one breathed. “I don’t mean to make you feel unworthy or that somehow I am more worthy than anyone else, though some may think otherwise.”

He seemed to chuckle again. “It is that I am here and you are there, wherever we may be…” He paused, “and I have been with some of you, though most of you didn’t know it.” He gestured towards the Dome, “And though it may seem inconceivable, this is your dwelling place as well as my dwelling place. The light beckons and the dark is there, and the faith and the hope.” He came close and looked directly into the camera, and for a moment a face seemed to peer through the face shield, and then he stood back and said, “I hope you will pray for me,” turned away, and disappeared through the pearlescent surface of the Dome wall.

Do you have any quirky writing habits? (lucky mugs, cats on laps, etc.)

Sometimes, late at night, I’ll wake up after having intensely dreamed. That’s when the magic happens! I let it come and write it down…and then sit back, and take another sip of herbal tea from my favorite mug!

Do you have a motto, quote, or philosophy you live by?

“Your mind is a place, it is not you!” But here’s one from Richard Feynman, Physicist: “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”

If you could choose one thing for readers to remember after reading your book, what would it be?

That if you trust the universe, you may be surprised where you wind up and what you could be!

Kendall Williams is the author of the new book Thing Beyond Reason: First Contact, the Becoming

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