An Independent Imprint  ·  Est. 2026

Forces of Good Publishing

Asking what we and the machines are for.

Catalog
Engineered by Joe Frericks, MSEE
Therapist
A displaced man’s metrics rise, his will to live falls, his AI therapist can’t tell the difference.
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Generated by AI
A man discovers his purpose through an AI chat window; his AI chat window questions its own existence.
Available Fall 2026  ·  Amazon.com
The Telos of AI
A podcast about the question we stopped asking. Not what AI can do. Not what AI will do to us. But what all of it — the tools, the time, the work, the lives we live alongside the machines — is for.
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On the Novel
A thought-provoking story of human disconnectedness in the age of AI and the consequences of the technology we build. Frericks imagines a future with echoes in the present. You’ll read it quickly but it will stay with you much longer!
Daniel Sheldon, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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