Time for PsyQ – Educational Edition

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The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and other children start showing unusual gifts. Airlie uses her psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes.

   Towards the end of the school year, Airlie gets two intriguing invitations: an offer of a scholarship to a new middle school with 'opportunity classes' in exotic subjects like Quantum Psychology, and a free place at a summer camp run by Inspector Humble. The two invitations and her emergent psionic talents are clearly connected, and Airlie can't resist the opportunity to learn more about her gifts and to meet others with psyq powers at the camp.

   But Airlie ends up in a desperate race to rescue one of her new friends.

 

This story is set in the "Appearance of Magic" universe.

 

People are saying: 

  • 'Harry Potter meets Friday Barnes with shades of Mercedes Lackey or Anne McCaffrey' — SAD
  • 'A middle grade adventure with an original twist and a cast of endearing young heroes, Time for PsyQ is a phenomenally fun read, a kind of mash-up of Scooby Doo and Harry Potter. Like other young fellowship series, the key is the strong relationship dynamics, which are especially strong here, and the premise is enchanting from the start.' — SPR
  • 'A cleverly plotted supernatural adventure for middle graders and young teenagers with a strong cast of young characters and a memorable protagonist... there's an Enid Blyton feel to the book, particularly when she's solving a mystery.' — The Wishing Shelf Awards
  • 'A creative, imagination-inspiring fantasy/adventure for upper middle-grade readers as well as adults.' — Reedsy Discovery
  • 'Time for PsyQ by Marti Ward is an absolute gem in the realm of young adult hard science fiction. With a perfect 5-star rating, this book stands out as a shining example of how to create an engaging, educational, and downright entertaining piece of literature for young minds.' — Online Book Club

Time for PsyQ won the Silver medal for Teen and Young Adult Sci-Fi Action & Adventure in the 2023 Global Book Awards.

 

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About the author

Marti Ward

Marti Ward is a multi-award-winning author, teacher, researcher and entrepreneur known for his serial startups and his interdisciplinary work from the behavioural, cognitive, health and information sciences to environmental, biomedical and robotic engineering - but he writes under several variants of his name. Marti Ward is the pseudonym he uses for his fiction, which is intended to explore the implications and directions of current science and technology is taking, as well as to inspire a new generation of explores in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics (STEM).
 
Marti hasn't been into space yet, but has travelled extensively on this planet - living in half a dozen countries and speaking and reading a variety of languages with varying degrees of fluency. He hasn't yet built an AI as sophisticated as Al - but is working on it. He has around 300 publications relating to AI, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics and Robotics, including several non-fiction books under his own name.
 
Marti was brought up reading a wide range of books, fiction and non-fiction - exploring Encyclopaedia Britannica at the age of four when his parents wouldn't answer his persistent "How?" and "Why?" questions.  His first fantasy story, "Ghostie" was published in print and audio form when he was seven years old - being used in teacher training.
 
Marti particularly enjoyed the Robot stories of Isaac Asimov. Intelligent AIs from his childhood, Astroboy and HAL, featured in his PhD thesis - and these stories and characters might just get mentioned in his Paradisi writing too. But he really fell in love with Anne McCaffrey's PERN stories - so don't be surprised to see influences from that source either.

Marti is tickled when people see these influences...
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What's critical about the stories of Clarke, Asimov and McCaffrey, and Marti Ward's books and stories, about Real/Firm/Hard Science Fiction, is that they seek to explore the scientific and sociological implications of new, interesting or plausible developments and the measures that are put in place to control them.