Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up…
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Scientific Introspection has won the coveted BIBA award for 2020’s best independent book, nonfiction-psychology. See: (https://bestindiebookaward.com/live/) Scientific Introspection is an essay in psychology and philosophy of science. It calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. If you thought…
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Alien Panic, Second in the Phane Trilogy, has arrived. Phane Vikos is an anthropologist from a distant planet who was abandoned by his expedition on Earth and left to perish. It’s not his fault if he looks like a green…
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Scientific Introspection is a monograph on philosophical psychology in 45,000 words. It is neither sci- nor fi-, but very psi (psychological). Psi-non-fi? It’s an essay, something I’ve been working on for twenty-five years. I started writing it when I realized how…
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Intelligent Things: Second in the Newcomers Series is a finalist in the 2020 Sci-fi contest run by the American Fiction Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest. (http://americanbookfest.com/americanfictionawards) The official press release reads in part: LOS ANGELES – American Book Fest has announced the…
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Intelligent Things, the third book in the Newcomers Series, has placed as a finalist for the prestigious Cygnus award for science fiction. (See www.chantireviews.com/2020/04/18/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2019-chanticleer-intl-book-awards/). Seventeen finalists are named, giving the novel about a 6% chance. The winner is announced in…
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The second volume in the “Phane” series is ready to be released. Phane, as you surely know, is the alien in “Alien Body” the inaugural of the series. Phane’s spaceship crashed on Earth and he had to get it “re-started”…
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Publishers Weekly reviewed the second in the Newcomers series: Alien Talk. Their “Booklife” division considers self-published work, and here is some of what they said: Adams’s provocative second Newcomer novel (after Reluctant Android) injects thought-provoking scientific speculation into a prescient tale…
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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…
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Getting reviews for self-published books is tougher than panning for gold. You have to ask for user reviews, even from your friends, over and over. When I finish reading a book, I feel like telling someone. I usually write something…
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