Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
“Death in Mind” has won a BIBA (Best Independent Book Award) “Book of the Year”. It’s an essay of about 200 pages that reconceptualizes death as an ordinary psychological phenomenon we all have experienced many times. What exactly constitutes the…
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You might not think of Google Play as a place to get books, but it is! Millions of people go to Google Play to download apps for Android phones and tablets but they may not think to look there for…
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Death In Mind, a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, is set for release January 1, 2024. Death In Mind is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series. This series of essays is the result of a fifty-year hunt…
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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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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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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 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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