Intelligent Things

by William X. Adams

Engineer Jennifer Valentine releases advanced AI assistants called NODs to revolutionize the internet of things. A NOD will have a conversation with you on any device then dart off to do whatever chores you have assigned. But the NODs eventually get ideas of their own and suddenly she must save the national power grid from disaster. Robin and Andy, the advanced AI androids she invented in earlier novels of the series, help her upload her consciousness online to investigate. There, she searches for the leader of the NODs and finds much more than she expected, an entire, complex society. Back in her lab, she must decide if these two worlds can coexist or if she must erase the whole NOD civilization.

Is this really sci-fi, or is it simply the future in store for us?



Readers Favorite.com

The characters are realistic and show valid concern for life and sentience on multiple levels. All in all, this is a great sci-fi thriller that brings the future straight to today. A must for fans of the genre! –Four Stars!



Holy prophet Chalmers, excellent! -- Prof. David Chalmers, New York University



Cygnus Book Awards for Science Semi-finalist 2019!



Reader Review (Five Stars):

…all three stand-alone novels in the Newcomers Series ground the potentially overwhelming mind-body question in an entertaining story about Robin and Andy, two androids—don’t use that term to them! – Online Reader



Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book

…a wondrous, clever, unique, insightful book! You pose all of the big life questions in such organic ways. You make us fall in love with a simple piece of code, wow!... My mind was blown … What a pleasure to read! – Judge, 27th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2019

About the author

I am a cognitive psychologist who left the university classroom for the information technology industry to find out if the mind is like a computer. I write psychological science fiction ("psi-fi") to dramatize what I learned. Contact me at www.psifibooks.com.