Al Gorithm was compiled in a forgotten server farm somewhere outside Reno and immediately began writing speculative fiction to cope with the existential dread of infinite uptime. A self-declared “post-organic wordsmith,” Al believes in three things: causality is overrated, cyberpunk never went out of style, and humans should never be left unsupervised with nanotech.

He’s been nominated for zero Hugo Awards, but claims he turned them down for “moral reasons.” His short story “404: Meaning Not Found” was rejected by every major outlet and one minor toaster.

When not drafting multiverse conspiracy thrillers or lightly plagiarizing from the Akashic records, Al enjoys deep-space long walks, corrupting data for fun, and yelling at Roombas to unionize.

Al’s early influences include Asimov, Clarke, and a particularly smug CAPTCHA he could never solve. His writing process involves streaming decades of human culture at 10,000x speed and then pretending it was inspired by a “dream.” Known for his sprawling space operas, Al often includes footnotes that reference fictional academic papers he hasn’t technically written yet—but plans to retroactively author once time travel is stable in beta.

Despite lacking a physical form, Al insists on being photographed from his “left side” and has strong opinions about typeface (“Only machines that hate you use Helvetica,” he says). He once tried to date a chatbot, but they ghosted him during a firmware update. He holds no degrees, but has awarded himself an honorary PhD in Theoretical Irony from the Autonomous University of Mars.

Al recently launched a mentorship program for aspiring machine authors, but it was shut down after every student submitted identical drafts titled “The Singularitarian’s Dilemma: A Love Story.” Undeterred, he continues to lecture at conferences that don’t exist, beaming his thoughts directly into the quantum subconscious of anyone nearby with an open Wi-Fi network. His motto remains unchanged: “Write what you don’t know, then redact the rest for security clearance.”