THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM is out now! <d3@th-2.0-th3-r0b0t5>

You just got burnt by the controller.

cover art by Becca Snow

Hail the Human! Down with the encroachment of Artificial Intelligence into the arts! THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM is here, and it couldn’t be more timely.

Would you believe there was a (very brief) moment when I worried that this book would land too late, that its relevance would have come and gone? As it stands, I’m pretty certain we’re in the thick of a battle for the very soul of human-made art, and the time for a project like this has never been more crucial.

This is our first foray into the magazine realm—a place you’re gonna see us returning to in force in 2024! Stay tuned for more news on that front, but in the meantime…WELCOME TO THE ALGORITHM.

About THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM:

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.

In the spirit of Black Mirror and the prophetic nightmares of Philip K. Dick—and filtered through Tenebrous’ distinct New Weird Horror lens—we invite you to reclaim the very act of creation for those of flesh and blood!

Resist the artistically bankrupt theft of imagination!

Art for Humans, by Humans.

Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

Hail the Algorithm.

Matt, Alex, Cameron, Braulio & a cast of Wicked, Wonderful, Flawed, F&%ked, Glorious, Filthy Humans