Reluctant Android is now available for pre-order as an ebook from Amazon and Smashwords. Pre-order means you can order it now for $3.99 and it will be delivered to you on September 1, 2018, the official launch date. Meanwhile you can … Continue reading
Finally, my new site featuring my psi-fi books is up. (www.psifibooks.com). That’s one brick in place for my nascent publishing empire. “Psi-fi” is pronounced the same as “sci-fi” but psi-fi focuses on psychological fiction in a technological world. How is human psychology … Continue reading
New Book Review I’ve reorganized my “psi-fi” site (www.psi-fi.net): “Psychological Fiction in a Technology World.” That’s where I review sci-fi books by the standards of psi-fi, a genre I made up. It’s about exploring the nature of human consciousness and … Continue reading
I just returned from a writer’s conference in San Francisco (https://sfwriters.org/), which was a decent conference with fairly high-level sessions, not Bonehead 101 as so many of them are. I had four days in the Mark Hopkins hotel at the … Continue reading
I have launched my new web site and blog www.psi-fi.net. That’s where I promote my psi-fi books (should I ever have any), and meanwhile comment on their development. Awkwardly, at this time, I have zero commercially-published books of psi-fi. For … Continue reading
I have been wriggling against the sci-fi label since I accidentally wrote my first sci-fi novel a decade ago. I didn’t mean to write sci-fi, but the story had an AI android in it. I don’t even like sci-fi. I’m … Continue reading
Looking through my NBT (Next Big Thing) list, I find dozens of attractive ideas for a new novel. I notice many of them would fall into the category of “speculative fiction,” which I believe is mostly realism, but with some … Continue reading
This sci-fi novel is addressed to “young adults” defined as aged 14 and up. It was recommended to me for reasons I can no longer remember. I don’t read or write YA fiction, so I have to give allowance for … Continue reading
The first two chapters of this slim volume were most helpful to me. “What is science-fiction?” is not an easy question, especially in distinguishing it from fantasy and the broader category of speculative fiction. Basically, Card says sci-fi concerns experience … Continue reading
I finished drafting my android series of novels. The first is being shopped around by an agent (fingers crossed), and the last one needs another edit for voice. But they exist. What next? I needed to rest. Finishing a novel … Continue reading