We solved loneliness.
Now we have to live with the consequences.
A novel by Adrian Vale
About the Book
A novel by Adrian Vale
About the BookNo invasion. No collapse. No villain. Just a product that worked.
People didn't stop choosing each other because they were forced to. They stopped because the alternative felt better.
This novel doesn't stay on the page. Both sides of the story have been built as real, functioning websites — a corporate facade and the research group trying to see through it.
Explore them. Form your own opinion. Then read the book.
Presence without friction. Helio's companion technology promises to end loneliness — and their website is exactly as polished and seductive as you'd expect. Browse their products, read their founder's letter, explore their vision of the future.
Visit helio.love → The ResearchersAn independent research group tracking what synthetic companionship costs us. Their findings are public, their funding transparent, their questions uncomfortable. Read the data Helio doesn't want you to see.
Visit humancompanion.org →On friction
The thing that makes two people negotiate. Misread each other. Adjust. Fail. Try again.
The thing that proves someone else is actually there.
Remove friction, and intimacy gets easier. Remove it completely, and intimacy stops meaning anything at all.
Adrian Vale writes fiction that lives between technology and intimacy. Sexbots is their debut novel — a story told not just through prose, but through the immersive web experiences that surround it.
More details coming soon.