Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
Polters, released in March, is a novel about life on the other side of the river that separates the living from the dead. And it has landed on the bottom rung of a tall ladder: the Cygnus Prize Longlist: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/…
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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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New nonfiction from Psi-Fi Books: Nothing in Mind. The so-called stream of consciousness is not really a stream. Close observation reveals that the mind operates in punctuated pulses. What’s in-between those moments of lucidity? Nothing. Sleep is a prime example…
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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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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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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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