Thank You For Joining the Algorithm

by Alex Woodroe (Editor), Cameron Howard (Editor), Marcy Arlin

DEATH TO THE ROBOTS!

This Zero Issue of Tenebrous' upcoming quarterly magazine has arrived to wrest the controls of artistic endeavor from the clutches of A.I. thieves and restore it to the rightful hands of human creators.

This collection of Sci-Horror short fiction, comics, poems, and art celebrates the connection between humanity and creativity in the face of ever-increasing pressure to submit to the inevitability of algorithmic dominion.

Profits from sales of THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM go to the Algorithmic Justice League and the European Guild of Artificial Intelligence Regulation.

Table of Contents:

SHORT FICTION:

“The Android & Esmel” by Marcy Arlin

“Chimera” by Edward Barnfield

“TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SYMPTOMS” by Caleb Bethea

“Please Rate Your Experience From 1-10” by Michael Boulerice

“Filtered” by Koji A. Dae

”The Grid” by Beth Dawkins

“Philanderer” by Monica Joyce Evans

“Wound Together” by gaast

“The Grin of the Ministry” by Colin Hinckley

“Schroedinger's Head” by Joe Koch

“The Price of Pancakes” by Michael A. Reed

“Iago v2.0” by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

“I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” by Jill Tew

“Requiem Shark” by Kay Vaindal

“The Bodiless” by Carson Winter

POETRY & WEIRD FORMS:

“Rent-A-Baby: Content Without the Commitment” by Lyndsey Croal

“do not trust the poet what has the poet ever done for you” by luna rey hall

“CyberBerry” by Eva Papasoulioti

“A Face-Eating Oracle Envisions Your Future” by Simo Srinivas

COMICS:

“I’m not a robot” by Aster Fialla

“Spare Parts” by Caitlin Marceau

ADDITIONAL ART:

Janice Blaine

Jonathan La Mantia

Samir Sirk Morató

Helen Whistberry

Plus a LOGIC PUZZLE created by Arkylie Killingstad.

Cover art by Becca Snow.

Edited by Cameron Howard.

Editor in Chief: Alex Woodroe.

Genres: Horror, Anthologies

84 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2023

About the author

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer and editor of dark speculative fiction. She’s the editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. Her folk horror/fantasy book, WHISPERWOOD, is coming July 2023 from Flame Tree Press, and she has short stories and non-fiction published across venues like The Horror Library, The NoSleep Podcast, and Nightmare Magazine. She’s passionate about infusing her country’s culture, food, and folklore into her work, and loves talking shop at @AlexWoodroe.

Reviews

[David Swisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent cyberpunk/techno-horror magazine. Great stories, great poetry, great art, and a pretty intense logic puzzle. I really enjoyed these stories, with the exception of a couple of them they were all outstanding. As you might expect, the stories were of a technological theme, mostly AI and they read like premises to Black Mirror episode.

My favorite stories/poems were Requiem Shark by Kay Vaindal, Please Rate Your Experience From 1-10 by Michael Boulerice, The Bodiless by Carson Winter, and Rent-A-Baby by Lyndsey Croal

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

i really enjoyed the creativity and uniqueness of this collection - I was very pleasantly surprised by the word puzzle game! I do wish the poetry and comics had been more interspersed with the stories like the art was. overall, a very timely collection that gave me new and exciting things to fear.

[Mike Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This whole "magazine" is a great concept. With almost every story, the ending gave me that nice hit of "Oh yeah, there's that techno-dread".

If you think being too plugged into certain reality "enhancing" technologies while being at the whim of the powers that control those addictive, and at times compulsory, same technologies is the cause of humanities present and definitely future woes, then you'll like this collection.

Great artwork throughout and even a little logic puzzle at the end that an AI certainly shouldn't be able solve.