Intelligent Things, the third book in the Newcomers trilogy, has qualified as a semi-finalist for the prestigious Cygna Award in Sci-fi.
A “semi-finalist” is one level of filtering better than “shortlisted” in their schema. A “semifinalist” win is not a grand prize, but it is a win and something to hoot about!
Intelligent Things (sci-fi, 80,000 words): Engineer 
Jennifer Valentine releases advanced AI assistants online to revolutionize the internet of things. But her softbots, called NODs, go rogue, and she must save the national power grid from disaster. With her consciousness uploaded online, she searches for the leader of the NODs and finds much, much more than she expected. Back in her lab, she must decide: erase the entire NOD world to protect the human world?
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The characters are realistic and show valid concern for life and sentience on multiple levels. All in all, this is a great sci-fi thriller that brings the future straight to today. A must for fans of the genre! –Four Stars!
Holy prophet Chalmers, excellent! — Prof. David Chalmers, New York University
CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction: Semi-Finalist, 2019
All three stand-alone novels in the Newcomers Series ground the potentially overwhelming mind-body question in an entertaining story about Robin and Andy, two androids—don’t use that term to them! – Alice Hatcher, author of The Wonder That Was Ours.
Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards:
…a wondrous, clever, unique, insightful book! You pose all of the big life questions in such organic ways. You make us fall in love with a simple piece of code, wow!… My mind was blown … What a pleasure to read! – Judge, 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.
Intelligent Things is waiting for you:
Ebook – Kindle: ISBN-13: 978-1-7322274-7-7 (Mobi)
www.amazon.com/dp/B07QLNLS88
Amazon Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-1-7322274-8-4 (Paper)
www.amazon.com/dp/B07QLNLS88
Ebook – Smashwords ISBN: 978-1-7322274-6-0 (Epub)
Bill! This is great news! Did you have to promote your book a lot for this award, or did it come into their hands naturally?
I’m so happy you are getting recognized!!
Thanks, Erika! Chanticleer Reviews (https://www.chantireviews.com/) offers multiple international contests in many categories. I entered one of them and survived the initial culls. They seem honest and are certainly enthusiastic. Bill.