In an optimized world, thinking for yourself can be deadly…
Your efficiency score determines your right to exist. Jordan Reese spent six years making sure the scores were right.
In 2045 Denver, the JNA doesn't threaten citizens. It optimizes them. Every relationship scored. Every decision weighted. Every deviation from the approved path quietly, permanently penalized. Jordan believed in the system completely. She built her career on perfecting it.
Then she found something the algorithm wasn't designed to account for: people who still remember what it felt like to choose.
Drawn into an underground resistance built from preserved art and dangerous memory, Jordan faces a question the system never prepared her to answer. What do you owe a world you helped design, when you finally see what it's destroying?
For readers who found Black Mirror intriguing and The Handmaid's Tale uncomfortably familiar. THE ALGO is speculative fiction for anyone asking uncomfortable questions about AI, surveillance, and the optimization quietly reshaping what it means to be human.
In a world of straight lines, a single curve can start a revolution.
