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 modern technology, from brain science to androids.

I just posted a new review, of a book called “Barren Cove,” about a family of robots virtually indistinguishable from a family of humans. (www.psi-fi.net/when-is-a-robot-not-a-robot/  ) Was it psi-fi? Not much can be learned from robots if they act just like humans, so the book is an interesting limiting case of the psi-fi genre.