Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
Mind Without Brain, a short (159 pp) nonfiction essay, is a finalist for the best nonfiction of 2021 at Next Generation Indie Book Awards (https://indiebookawards.com)! Any time an essay in philosophical psychology wins a prize, you know it has to…
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Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn’t life be better if that weren’t necessary? Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world,…
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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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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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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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Intelligent Things, the third novel in the Newcomer Series, is available on Amazon as a Kindle ebook or a 6×9 paperback (or both: if you buy the print copy, Amazon will throw in a free ebook copy). It’s also available…
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Reluctant Android, my first psi-fi novel, is officially launched on Kindle and Smashwords today, September first. I hope he is discovered by readers. Capture the Reluctant Android at: Kindle: bit.ly/RA-kindle Smash: bit.ly/RA-smash The ebook is also available from iBooks, Nook,…
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