Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
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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Phane and his green alien family, sentient androids Andy and Robin and their human friends: all of them are now available on Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and other retailers. The paperback and Kindle versions are still on Amazon,…
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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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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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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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Alien Talk, the second in the Newcomers series, has won an honorable mention. It was a finalist in the American Fiction Awards contest for 2019. So it didn’t win, but it “was a contendah!” We’ll take our gold-foil embossed stickers…
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Smashwords.com, where I published my “Newcomers” trilogy in epub electronic format, is having a big sale, so this is your chance to get some great android stories on the cheap. These are full, exciting novels in nice electronic formats. For…
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Reluctant Android won an Honorable Mention in the Writers Digest Self-Published E-book awards for 2018. Contest Judges said: “…a fast-paced morality tale, one that blends bleeding-edge science with deep philosophical questions for a high-throttle page-turner.” “The narrative here is tightly…
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The Internet of Things is sneaking up on us. I was surprised to learn that my new noise-cancelling headphones use artificial intelligence. Not only do they talk (a slightly robotic voice announces the battery status), but they are connected to…
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