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Dreaming of Readers

William X. Adams Posted on October 26, 2021 by William X. AdamsOctober 26, 2021

Any review is extremely hard to get, so I was pleased to get a good one for Alien Dream Machine from ReadersFavorite.com.  Here is part of it: Readers Favorite.com: Five Stars! “… a narcoleptic private investigator’s adventures with an alien … Continue reading →

Posted in Phane Series | Tagged consciousness, dreams, gambling, humorous science fiction, Las Vegas, narcolepsy, Oslo, philosophical science fiction, psychokinesis, psychological science fiction, sci-fi, science fiction, sleep

Scientific Introspection Scores a Win!

William X. Adams Posted on December 23, 2020 by William X. AdamsJanuary 14, 2021

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Nonfiction | Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, BIBA award, consciousness, introspection, methodology, psi-fi, psychology, sci-fi, Scientific Introspection

Phane and Flooma Debut!

William X. Adams Posted on October 14, 2020 by William X. AdamsOctober 14, 2020

Who? Phane and Flooma, of course, aliens from the planet Vikos, stranded on Earth. You haven’t heard? They escaped the compound out in the desert near Sparks, Nevada where the rest of the Vikosian expedition is held prisoner by Rimar, … Continue reading →

Posted in Phane Series | Tagged addiction, alien invasion, Alien Panic, aliens, first contact, friendship, gender, Phane, psi-fi, sci-fi

Pain You Can Use

William X. Adams Posted on August 12, 2020 by William X. AdamsAugust 12, 2020

I just finished sending out two dozen queries to literary agents, pitching my latest sci-fi novel, “Alien Panic.”  My expectations for a positive agent response are close to zero, and I look toward self-publishing the book in January. Why did … Continue reading →

Posted in Phane Series, Publishing | Tagged agent query, agents, Alien Panic, pitching a novel, sci-fi, self-publishing

What is the Perfect Review?

William X. Adams Posted on May 11, 2020 by William X. AdamsAugust 12, 2020
Alien Talk Cover

I was delighted when my recent book, Alien Talk, received a positive review.  The book is the second in the Newcomers Series, about AI androids making their way in a human world.  The review came from Booklife, the division of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alien Talk, Newcomers Series | Tagged AI, Alien Talk, androids, aphasia, artificial intelligence, book reviews, communication, intentionality, language, linguistics, natural language, Noam Chomsky, Psifibooks.com, psycholinguistics, Publishers Weekly, sci-fi

Intelligent Things in the Semi-Finals!

William X. Adams Posted on January 29, 2020 by William X. AdamsJanuary 29, 2020

Intelligent Things 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. I’ll take my wins wherever I find them, so I say, woo-hoo!! What … Continue reading →

Posted in Newcomers Series | Tagged androids, artificial intelligence, consciousness, cybersecurity, Cygnus, Internet of thing, IoT, psi-fi, Psifibooks.com, sci-fi, William X. Adams

Is this Alien Too Goofy?

William X. Adams Posted on August 20, 2019 by William X. AdamsSeptember 3, 2019

My new psi-fi novel, Alien Body, is released September 1, 2019. It’s the first in a series featuring my favorite alien, Phane Vikos, who looks like a large green tennis ball, with arms, legs, and a head. Oh, yes, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Phane Series | Tagged aliens, Chopin, cosmology, embodiment, evolution, exobiology, first contact, FTL, gravity, green aliens, intersubjectivity, LIGO, Phane, psi-fi, psychological science fiction, sci-fi

Phane in the Can

William X. Adams Posted on June 14, 2019 by William X. AdamsJuly 7, 2019

The first volume of my new trilogy starring Phane, the green alien from the star Vikos, is relatively done, “doneness” always being a subjective judgment in writing. I’ve re-written, edited, and double-AI-grammar-checked. I have a cover design. I have uploaded … Continue reading →

Posted in Phane Series | Tagged aliens, consciousness, embodiment, first contact, gravity, LIGO, Phane, psi-fi, sci-fi, space travel

Little Green Alien

William X. Adams Posted on February 18, 2019 by William X. AdamsMay 21, 2019

As the third and final installment of the Newcomers series marches toward publication (Intelligent Things, due on May 1, 2019), I am working on a completely different approach to psychological sci-fi, or psi-fi. I am  succumbing to the cliché of … Continue reading →

Posted in Writing | Tagged AI, androids, consciousness, embodiment, green men, psi-fi, psychological sci-fi, sci-fi, space aliens, the Newcomers, Turing test

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