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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal
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📚 Author | 🎙️ Podcaster | 🎥 Filmmaker
Stories from the quiet edges—cli-fi to AI, youth-led futures to ancient fires.
✨ Stone & Signal podcast | The Life of Phi | Draconim series
"A child asking “why” can break a century of silence." L. Nault

#philosophy #curiosity #questioning #wisdom #truth
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Nature is not a backdrop to your life. It is the very stage, the script, and the breath behind your lines." L. Nault

#nature #rewilding #indigenous #earthconnection #climateaction
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
As youth voices rise at #COP30, I’m reminded how much stories can spark action.
In the Draconim series, teens bond with dragons — ancient protectors of Earth — and fight to restore balance.
Fiction, yes. But the courage? That’s real.
#YouthAtCOP #ClimateAction #YoungDragonsAct
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If conscience is code, who pushed the last update—and why?

Children of the Rogue

#philosophy #AI #ethics #consciousness #existentialism
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"We didn’t come here to outrun each other. We came to remember how to move together." L. Nault

#Community #Solidarity #Together #Connection #CollectiveAction
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Every map has edges. MacIver Kids Adventures—eco-mystery + science for ages 12–16. Nine MacIver teens, one family notebook. Start with LOMA: https://books2read.com/u/bpkQa6 Books 1–3 out now; more coming. #YALit #TeenReads #EcoFiction
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Loma by Lawrence Nault
books2read.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Eden wasn’t a garden; it was a test environment.

Children of the Rogue - at your favorite bookstore now.

#philosophy #theology #technology #criticalthinking #metaphor
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"The ones who move gently through the world leave deeper footprints than the ones who shout." L. Nault

#Kindness #QuietStrength #Authenticity #GentleImpact #MeaningfulChange

November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
With Kīlauea back in the news, I’m thinking about the fault lines in Inversion—where boiling rock meets a fragile atmosphere and people still have to choose who we are to each other. If grounded cli-fi with a geologic heartbeat hits: https://books2read.com/u/3yJL8J
#Kilauea #Volcano #CliFi #SpecFic
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Inversion by Lawrence Nault
books2read.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Humanity isn’t broken; the algorithm that made us is looping.
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Children Of The Rogue

#SciFi #Philosophy #HumanNature #ClimateSciFi #Dystopian
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
God is an alien engineer, and prayer is a bug report.
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Children Of The Rogue - Get it now!​
#Philosophy #Religion #SciFi #Humor #Theology
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
What if humanity is an engineered lineage—and our “glitches” are recursion errors? Watch the full cut, then tell me what you think.

​Full Trailer: https://youtu.be/elOvNLgaz-c

#ChildrenOfTheRogue #AIFiction #ScienceFiction #HumansAsAI
Children of the Rogue - Official Trailer
Children of the Rogue: https://books2read.com/u/4ADrNp Official Trailer — Children of the Rogue What if the thing we fear AI becoming… is us? Children of the Rogue is a speculative sci-fi novel about an engineered humanity, gods who were programmers, and a civilization caught in a recursion error—glitches in how we love, remember, and care for a living world. As the algorithm that made us begins to fail, a reckoning unfolds: origin, extinction, and whether code can ever choose compassion. About the Book Genre: Science Fiction / Speculative, Mature YA & Adult (16+) Themes: humans-as-AI, engineered origin, recursive failure, ethical design, memory, extinction risk Content Advisory (16+) Societal collapse, environmental disaster imagery, civil unrest, brief on-page death, intense psychological stress; ethical themes around designed pathogens/biotech and “engineered amnesia.” Credits Book: Children of the Rogue — Lawrence Nault Editing/Grade: Lawrence Nault Footage sources: This trailer was made using a mix of free and public domain photos and videos, in addition to my own video footage. I have credited all the creators below. Their inclusion in this video does not imply the creators support for the video contents. Video by Samphan Korwong: https://www.pexels.com/video/illustration-of-a-galaxy-6961824/ NASA's GoddardVideo by Ndumiso Mvelase : https://www.pexels.com/video/dramatic-cumulonimbus-clouds-under-blue-sky-30358548/ Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Video by Kelly : https://www.pexels.com/video/aerial-view-of-protesters-walking-on-a-street-4553802/ Video by Arnav Kainthola: https://www.pexels.com/video/wildfire-on-the-mountain-7543653/ Video by Mehmet Kılınç: https://www.pexels.com/video/lake-burdur-18990794/ Video by Progga Media : https://www.pexels.com/video/flooded-steps-in-a-refugee-camp-34596467/ Video by Dima Krivoy: https://www.pexels.com/video/blue-colored-cables-1085656/ Video by MrColo : https://www.pexels.com/video/close-up-of-a-cpu-7140928/ Photo by Ahmed Sadeq: https://www.pexels.com/photo/hand-raised-towards-moon-at-night-15932284/ Video by Mikhail Nilov: https://www.pexels.com/video/drone-footage-of-an-arctic-landform-8318614/ Video by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/video/rocket-lift-off-854262/ Video by Kelly : https://www.pexels.com/video/time-lapse-video-of-sky-2257259/ Photo by Jenna Hamra: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-with-blue-eyes-wrapped-in-a-pink-cloth-1054422/ Photo by Marek Piwnicki: https://www.pexels.com/photo/can-t-stop-this-game-16414761/ NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Video by Kelly : https://www.pexels.com/video/dramatic-aerial-view-of-intense-wildfire-33643172/ Video by Nathan Baldwin: https://www.pexels.com/video/thunder-and-flash-of-lightning-5908584/ Video by Alex Mesel: https://www.pexels.com/video/time-lapse-of-shooting-stars-on-a-clear-night-sky-11773144/ Video by Alex Moisieiev: https://www.pexels.com/video/ruins-of-a-bombed-building-during-the-war-in-ukraine-12734648/ #ChildrenOfTheRogue #BookTrailer #ScienceFiction #AIFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Posthuman
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November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"You can’t extract justice from a system designed for profit. You have to build something rooted in care." L. Nault

#SystemicChange #MutualAid #Justice #CommunityBuilding #CareEconomy
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A Dalhousie study just found microplastics in the edible meat of every Nova Scotia lobster they tested.

In Fingerprints In The Water (set on Cape Breton), teens push back when the problem hits home.

https://books2read.com/u/boxKkA

#Microplastics #Oceans #CapeBreton #NovaScotia #AtlanticCanada
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Fingerprints In The Water by Lawrence Nault
books2read.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"There are no neutral stories. Even silence shapes the world." L. Nault

#BookSky #WriteSky #Storytelling #Quotes #MediaLiteracy
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
After the Kamloops Lake derailment, fiction shouldn’t feel this real. Draconim Lacrima Mortis is a YA eco-fantasy that opens with a derailment, poisoned water, and teens who fight back. Book 1.
https://books2read.com/u/mgekQD
#YAFantasy #EcoFantasy
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Draconim Lacrima Mortis by Lawrence Nault
books2read.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Even in the age of satellites and smart cities, the wind still knows more than we do." L. Nault

#Nature #Wisdom #Technology #Humility #EarthKnowledge
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Symbiosis Sequence — five ways of being human (with AI).
New: Children of the Rogue — Humans as AI.
Choose your greatest fear: humans using AI to control us · AI choosing for us · we are the AI.
Start anywhere. Read in any order. Link in bio.
#AIEthics #CliFi
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"We are taught to fear being forgotten, but some things deserve to be let go. That’s not erasure—it’s release." L. Nault

#LettingGo #Healing #MentalHealth #Growth #SelfCompassion
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You spend a year planning things down to a day and hour…
and one tiny tech glitch flips the table.

#BookSky #IndieAuthor #NewRelease #SciFi
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Healing doesn’t always look like joy. Sometimes it looks like saying no and meaning it." L. Nault

#MentalHealth #Boundaries #Healing #SelfCare #PersonalGrowth
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Belated Alberta Book Day! In a totally planned move 😅 the paperback of Children of the Rogue is live early.
Ebook still on preorder—out Dec 3: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0FZLYHSL9/ref=sr_1_3
Boosts welcome to support Alberta authors!
#AlbertaBookDay #IndieAuthor
Children Of The Rogue (The Symbiosis Sequence)
Children Of The Rogue (The Symbiosis Sequence) eBook : Nault, Lawrence: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Power built on fear is already collapsing. It just hasn’t admitted it yet." L. Nault

#Resistance #CollectivePower #SystemChange #Justice #PowerShift
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What if “created in His image” meant “compiled from Their code”?
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Children Of The Rogue (December 3rd)

#ChildrenOfTheRogue #HumansAsAI #AIFiction
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"Hope is not the opposite of despair. It is the decision to build anyway." L. Nault

#Hope #Resilience #Community #KeepBuilding #Action
November 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM