Tag Archive: androids

All Books Half-Price in July!

Psi-Fi Books is enrolled in the Annual Summer Sale over at Smashwords.com.  During July, you can get any book by William X. Adams at half price!  Sci-fi! Speculative Fiction!  Philosophical nonfiction! All through July, go to: https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ All Psi-Fi books…
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Introspecting on an Award

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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Intelligent Things Corners the Big Chicken!

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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Alien Talk Scores a Good Review!

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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The Alien Speaks!

Alien Talk Cover

Alien Talk, (psi-fi, 83,000 words) was released on Kindle just after midnight this morning. It’s the second in the Newcomers series, tales of extremely advanced AI androids who blend into human life (they are the Newcomers). The first was Andy…
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