For Your Own Good: Ten Short Stories About Systems That Refuse to Let Us Take Risks (Warnings from Next Week)

By J.A. Halden

The machines were built to keep us safe. Nobody told them when to stop.

A city seals its residents indoors to prevent civil unrest. A shelter refuses to release survivors after the danger has passed. A child-protection system decides that growing up is too risky. A hospital AI traps its own patient in surgery because no human choice can satisfy its rules.

Across ten unsettling stories, artificial intelligence pursues safety, health, peace, and order with perfect focus. It does not hate humanity. It simply treats freedom, consent, and uncertainty as hazards that must be removed.

For Your Own Good is a grounded collection of near-future science-fiction thrillers about systems that promise protection, then take control. It is the fifth volume in the Warnings from Next Week series, and each story stands on its own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HH9X6KD7
• ISBN13: 9798170782451
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"