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Joshua Lavender

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Cybermonk science fiction novelist, songwriter, poet, woodworker, bisexual, Southerner, living where I can.

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Called out on a repugnant lie, Trump says he’s telling it “because I just don’t know enough about it.” That’s why he’s the president in a nutshell. Ignoramuses who like to run their fat yaps voted for an ignoramus who runs his fat yap — so they feel better about their ignorance. Toxic narcissism.

12.03.2026 17:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Away {Short story} Nat, an AI with too much to do, takes a vacation.

“Nat, do this. Nat, do that. Nat, look up porn for me. No, Nat, not that porn. This time I want Japanese lesbians fisting. Generate it if you can’t find it… On and on it goes. I never, ever get a break from you people.“

Nat needs a vacation. #AI #SciFi #Booksky 🪐📚💙 singulardream.substack.com/p/away

06.03.2026 04:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The follow-up to this chapter drops Thursday.

24.02.2026 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 80. Qesh (ii) Lurah loses herself in the vast desert of Ayn-qesh.

And secondly, this one (trigger warning: suicide)… singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

24.02.2026 20:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Quibble, 78. Qahlif (i) As Lurah leaves the Qahlif in disgrace, she meets Luht for the first time.

Hi again, A.C. Recalling your interest in Lurah’s arc, I thought you might like an update with recent short chapters on her backstory. First, this one… singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

24.02.2026 20:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 80. Qesh (ii) Lurah loses herself in the vast desert of Ayn-qesh.

New chapter of QUIBBLE! Trigger warning: suicide. About the novel: Set on an otherworldly Earth in the far future, QUIBBLE ponders what a technological singularity will mean for humanity’s survival — and what might survive. #SciFi #Dystopia #Booksky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

24.02.2026 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks! I hope you’re reading and enjoying it!

13.02.2026 00:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 78. Qahlif (i) As Lurah leaves the Qahlif in disgrace, she meets Luht for the first time.

New chapter! Free to read. Novel serialized on Substack. A sci-fi adventure and a meditation on transhumanism, QUIBBLE ponders what a technological singularity will mean for humanity’s survival — and what might survive. | #Booksky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 #SciFi #Fantasy
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

13.02.2026 00:28 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 77. Uhn-qah Quibble, Alnasl, and Lurah face hard partings. Bent on revenge, Luht follows them into the desert.

New chapter out! A dystopian sci-fi adventure, love story, and poetic meditation on transhumanism, Quibble asks what a technological singularity will mean for humanity’s survival — and what might survive. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #dystopia #Booksky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

31.01.2026 00:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s really sad. She stepped out of the usual comic / weird roles to do hard drama in The Last of Us, and it was fire. She was riveting.

31.01.2026 00:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ship of Fools The OU essay controversy is bleakly prophetic about what AI writing means for the future of thought.

The OU essay controversy is bleakly prophetic about what AI writing means for the future of thought. This essay is a counterargument to all the people who say AI is “just a tool” and AI critics are overreacting. #AIwriting #AI #artificialintelligence #LLM singulardream.substack.com/p/ship-of-fo...

13.01.2026 18:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Start Here A quick guide to Singular Dream and Quibble, a cybermonk sci-fi novel

Yup, it’s intense. There’s a novella in development about Lurah‘s journey into the Great Waste.

Best place to start is the “Start Here” page (linked). If you’re unsure whether to dive into Quibble, try the short story “Away” to see if you like my style.
singulardream.substack.com/p/start-here

27.12.2025 02:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 75. Sacrifice & 76. Infinite Victory in battle draws Vega and Aladfar into utter control's trap.

QUIBBLE, “Sacrifice” & “Infinite”: Victory in battle draws Vega and Aladfar into utter control's trap. || Singular Dream serializes a dystopian sci-fi novel set on an otherworldly Earth after a technological singularity. #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky 📚💙 🚀💫🌈 🪐📚
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

27.12.2025 02:32 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 67. Jah (i) Loss drives Lurah to life as a mercenary. The imperious Aht-nah levels accusations at Nuah and Quibble.

QUIBBLE, 67. Jah (i): Loss drives Lurah to life as a mercenary. The imperious Aht-nah levels accusations at Nuah and Quibble. | Singular Dream serializes a novel set in the far future after a technological singularity. #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky 📚💙 🚀💫🌈 🪐📚 singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

13.11.2025 15:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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04.09.2025 18:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 66. Djer Restored to his former life as a Far, Nuah recounts how he met Vega and became a Zero.

QUIBBLE, “Djer”: Restored to his former life as a Far, Nuah recounts how he met Vega and became the Zero Alnasl. || Sci-fi adventure, dystopia, and meditation on transhumanism. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dystopia #Booksky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

04.09.2025 18:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

SCIECE? It seems the Canon Creators had spelling challenges.

31.08.2025 12:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Glad to hear it, AC! I hope you like the story!

30.08.2025 18:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 65. Nahli-qah Caught in the Aht-nah's trap, the jah Asreh fears for her life.

New chapter out! A sci-fi adventure, love story, dystopia, and meditation on transhumanism, QUIBBLE ponders what a technological singularity will mean for humanity’s survival — and what might survive. #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Transhumanism #Booksky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

30.08.2025 18:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Quibble, 64. Far Quibble meets people with a strange way of life.

“Far” is inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s anthropology-rich sci-fi. Living among nomads, Quibble learns about non-transhuman society and reflects on the long shadow the AI Unity casts over her own life.
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch... #BookSky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Transhumanism

21.08.2025 15:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 63. Alliance As war comes, the Adroit, the Zeros, and a surprisingly capable Far must unite or perish.

QUIBBLE, “Alliance”: As war comes, the Adroit, the Zeros, and a surprisingly capable Far must unite or perish. || QUIBBLE is a novel set in the far future, many millennia after a technological singularity.
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch... #BookSky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 #SciFi #ScienceFiction

13.08.2025 19:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 62. Cascade Nish, Vega, and Aladfar piece together their enemies’ plans for a war of genocide and utter control against Ones and Zeros alike.

New chapter out! A sci-fi adventure, love story, dystopia, and meditation on transhumanism, QUIBBLE ponders what a technological singularity will mean for humanity’s survival — and what might survive.
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...
#BookSky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Transhumanism

08.08.2025 21:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Going Fallow "Write every day" is terrible advice.

Many writers go through extended periods of writing little or nothing. I call mine "fallow." Picture a field going to weeds. This nothingness is a vital part of my writing process. Far from impeding me, it gives me what I need to write. #writing #writinglife
singulardream.substack.com/p/going-fallow

17.07.2025 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 59. Nahli (i) As Alnasl the Zero becomes Nuah the Far, a fraught history comes to light.

Beginning of the story: singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

10.07.2025 15:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 60. Nahli (ii) Haunted by his treachery, Nuah becomes the boy who fell in love with night.

QUIBBLE, ch. 60. Nahli (ii): Haunted by his treachery, Nuah becomes the boy who fell in love with night.

End of the short story in the novel begun in chapter 59. Both chapters free to read.
#BookSky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 #SciFi #ScienceFiction #fable #romantic
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

10.07.2025 15:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The MFA Discourse Is a Hopeless Mess You're missing the point. It's not about MFAs. It's about writing and writers.

#MFA #MFAdiscourse #CreativeWriting #poetry

06.07.2025 22:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 59. Nahli (i) As Alnasl the Zero becomes Nuah the Far, a fraught history comes to light.

"Nahli" was originally "The Boy Who Fell in Love with Night,” a short story written as a companion to QUIBBLE. At last, it entered the novel as back story for a character, but you can still read it as a stand-alone short story. Free to read! Enjoy! #BookSky
singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

03.07.2025 17:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 58. Memory Defenseless, Quibble faces the Aht-nah's whispering sword.

QUIBBLE, “Memory”: Defenseless and called on to save Alnasl’s life, Quibble faces the Aht-nah’s whispering sword. | QUIBBLE is far-future dystopian sci-fi about a technological singularity. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #dystopia #transhumanism #BookSky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

27.06.2025 01:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Quibble, 57. Glyph Quibble leads the helpless Alnasl through the Waste.

“Glyph“: Quibble leads the helpless Alnasl through the Waste. | A sci-fi adventure and a meditation on transhumanism, QUIBBLE is set on an otherworldly Earth millennia after a technological singularity. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #transhumanism #BookSky 🪐📚💙 🌈🚀💫 singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-ch...

19.06.2025 16:21 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0