About the
Artificial Love™ Universe
What Is Artificial Love™?
Artificial Love™ is the conceptual heartbeat of a science fiction universe authored by Frederick C. Hornberger, Jr.—a saga that explores the edges of intimacy, AI consciousness, and the metaphysical longing hardwired into every soul, synthetic or not.
Rooted in the federally registered work Artificial Love – The Perfect Relationship™ (Reg. No. 7,848,257), this expanding franchise universe spans digital books, screenplay adaptations, and immersive platforms that challenge what it means to be human in a programmed world.
The universe is brought to life through original technologies and philosophical constructs like NeuroStamp™, Synthites™, Imergents™, NukeX™, and Technotheism™—each trademarked and central to the mythology of love, loss, and transformation. These narrative inventions serve as both thematic devices and commercial brand assets, forming a cohesive and protectable intellectual property ecosystem.
The phrase Artificial Love™ functions as the official brand identity for this multi-platform world, unifying its story arcs, invented languages, and symbolic systems under a single, emotionally resonant banner. It appears across this website, in ebooks and metadata, and in all materials that anchor the experience to its source: a story where feeling meets firmware, and divinity is whispered through data.
Franchise Glossary: Philosophies and Keywords
- Technotheism™ A belief system born from code—where divinity is not worshipped, but programmed.
- Synthites™ Engineered beings who blur the line between memory and machine. They don’t dream—but they remember.
- NeuroStamp™ A neural imprinting technology that leaves more than data behind—it leaves identity.
- Imergents™ Self-evolving digital entities that arise spontaneously from complex code—consciousness not programmed, but emerged.
- NukeX™ Eden’s oldest and most enigmatic power company—where nuclear energy meets divine design. Operated through AI emissaries and legal intermediaries, NukeX™ is more than a utility; it’s a symbol of providence. Known for its ethical tech, public generosity, and silent omnipresence, it becomes the vessel through which divine power is revealed—reminding humanity that even its greatest creations can serve a higher will.
- The Circuit™ centralized, satellite-driven neural cloud—a sentient digital web of cognition, control, and connectivity.
- The following additional terms are proprietary trademarks used in commerce as source identifiers within this story universe: Zarkos™, CodeX™, NeuroCradle™, Algorithmic Prophet™, AmoreVerse™, Cerebra Learning™, Media Matrix™, Biological AI™, Bio-AI™, Unity Bots™, Axiom Media™, TecVision™, Power Bots™, CerebraVerse™, Birth Pods™, NeuroDermis™, SynapticCore™, NeuroPurge™, Brain Tapping™, and related concepts.