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TitanForge · Book One of three

The Social Life of
Small Enclosed Spaces

Three hundred people. Three ships. One impossible journey. No way home.

Aurora Logistics Intelligence · Excerpts
Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it achieves. Every. Single. One. Laura Marquez (quoting Deming et al.), p. 17.

A novel by Jim Benson. Out now.

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01 · Get the book

The ships have launched.

The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces is out now, the first of three TitanForge novels. Get your copy on Amazon, then come back for a mug. Three years in a sealed can is a long time without coffee.

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The TitanForge series

The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces, coverBook One

The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces

Out now

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No Plan Survives Contact with Reality, coverBook Two

No Plan Survives Contact with Reality

Q1 2027

Being Aware Does Not Make You Immune, coverBook Three

Being Aware Does Not Make You Immune

Q3 2027

02 · Why this book

Jim Benson has spent a lifetime studying how people behave inside systems.
Then he wrote the one system you can't walk out of.

He created Personal Kanban and Lean Coffee, work that earned a Shingo Award and the Brickell Key Award, and runs Modus Cooperandi, where the job is helping organizations see the systems they are trapped inside. At sixty, he turned that question on a starship: what three hundred people owe each other when there is no way home and something is always watching.

It is the first book of three. The surveillance is not a metaphor. It is the weather.

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03 · Quartermaster, ceramics

The solar system runs on medium roast.

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If You Give Something Expect Something Mug

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Homega Surveillance as a Service

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Laura Hero Mug

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04 · Step inside the world

The book is one way in.

Here are the others.

Seven doors into the same world. A crew to meet, a colony to tour, assessments that decide what kind of passenger you would be, a store, a feed of dispatches, and the Discord where readers (and sometimes the author) actually hang out.

TL-001

The Book

The cover, the first pages, and where to get your copy.

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Meet the Crew

Sixteen people, three ships, no way home. Put names to them before the journey does.

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The Experiences

Assessments and interrogations from inside the world. Find out what kind of crew member you would be.

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Welcome to Libreville

Take the colony tour, then flip every panel and read the part they redacted.

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Store

Mugs for people who run on medium roast and a low hum of dread.

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Field Notes

Dispatches on writing, surveillance, and what we owe each other in small rooms.

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The Discord

The crew quarters. Talk to other readers, and sometimes the author, in real time.

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