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V. N. Alexander, Ph.D. is a novelist, philosopher of science. Her favorite authors are Vladimir Nabokov and Stanislaw Lem, and she lives on a small sheep farm upstate with her husband and son.

Her latest novel, The Girlie Playhouse, will be released by Heresy Press in April 2026.

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VN Alexander on the Ripple Effect Podcast

Over the course of a 2+ hour interview with Ricky Varandas on the Ripple Effect podcast last week, we discussed:

The effect that AI might have on the arts (my Substack The Posthumous Style is dedicated to critiquing AI and transhumanism).

The fact that Jeffrey Epstein funded the Santa Fe Institute before I was there in the early naughts and why he was ultimately disappointed in the research there. M

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