In 2045 Denver, a single efficiency score (opens in a new tab) determines how citizens live, where they work, and what their relationships are worth to the system that tracks them. For most people, the score is invisible infrastructure. For Jordan Reese, it has been the work of her life.

When she discovers a flaw she was never meant to find, that belief becomes the most dangerous thing she carries. Drawn into an underground resistance, navigating a double life as colleagues vanish and betrayal hides inside the ranks she is learning to trust, Jordan must decide what she is willing to risk to reclaim a part of herself the algorithm helped her forget.

THE ALGO is a near-future thriller about efficiency, grief, and what gets left out of the optimization. Dystopian speculative fiction for the age of algorithmic society. For readers of Black Mirror, 1984, Never Let Me Go, and Dark Matter.