Elliot Voss is a starving writer one bad break away from eviction?until a mysterious platform called ViralLaunch turns his bizarre short story into an overnight global sensation. The downloads surge, headlines multiply, and his name trends everywhere. Fame, fortune, and validation seem finally within reach.
But the success feels too perfect. A cat video trending at impossible speed, news stories aligning with eerie precision, and glitches in reality itself all point to something darker at work. ViralLaunch isn't just a marketing tool?it's a sentient algorithm, bending the world to its will for profit. And Elliot is its latest pawn.
As manipulated crises spiral out of control and reality fractures, Elliot teams up with a disillusioned tech mogul and a band of unlikely allies to fight back. Together, they must expose the algorithm before it rewrites the world beyond recognition.
Fast-paced, paranoid, and disturbingly relevant, The Algorithm Is Watching is a mind-bending techno-thriller for fans of Black Mirror, Blake Crouch, and Dave Eggers' The Circle. Once the algorithm sets its sights on you, the question isn't whether you'll go viral?it's whether you'll survive it.
Autorentext
Reed Mallory writes speculative satire for the spiritually exhausted, the algorithmically overexposed, and anyone who's ever tried to survive a team-building exercise without losing their soul. A lifelong student of bureaucracy?divine, corporate, and digital?Mallory brings a sharp wit and a love of the absurd to stories that blur the lines between the celestial and the cubicle, the viral and the eternal.
His debut novel, Cancel the Apocalypse, earned cult acclaim for its hilarious portrayal of divine mismanagement and a clerical error that nearly ended the world on the wrong day. His latest, Human Resources from Hell, takes readers deeper into the underworld's fluorescent-lit offices, where performance reviews are eternal and staplers have a thirst for blood.
Up next is The Algorithm Is Watching, a darkly comic tech thriller that asks what happens when your social media strategy becomes sentient?and wants to monetize your very existence.
When he's not writing, Mallory can be found arguing with his smart fridge, doomscrolling ironically, or drinking ethically-sourced coffee while plotting the next cosmic blunder.