Cover of The Great Hairafter by Max Gale. As storm clouds gather, a young couple with spectacular hair parades down a city street past cheering crowds, while a grumpy bald man floats overhead in a balloon shaped like his own head.

A darkly funny science fiction novel

The Great Hairafter

In 2036, the upside of AI dystopia is great hair!

  • Dark humor about AI and Humanity
  • Funny science fiction
  • AI satire
  • Corporate satire
  • Lampooning our AI future

Coming November 2026

In 2036, ten years after getting a college degree, Marco Manoff is still jobless, like all the other hapless humans in Bleaker Heights. He scrapes by on the UBI and lives in an overcrowded apartment. He and his friends have settled for a stunted life in the shadows of AI. So it’s a shock when he gets a mysterious job offer. He’s hired as a “lab rat” product tester for a secretive startup. The first side effect: his luck flips from awful to amazing. He gets the best hair of his life, effortless promotions, and a date with Breeze, the beautiful head scientist. But Marco can’t stop doubting his good fortune. As he investigates, the truth emerges: he’s a pawn in a power struggle between the two AIs that run the company. One AI aims to give humanity an amazing consolation prize, the best hair in history! The other AI plots to enslave us. Can Marco and crew save humanity? And can The Great Hairafter give you the comic relief you need to face our dicey AI future?

About Max Gale

Max Gale is like a wind-whipped reporter standing in the path of a hurricane, except Max reports on the AI storm approaching our near future. He writes absurd, imaginative humor about our struggles to adapt to technology that’s smarter and faster than we are. Max Gale’s new novel, The Great Hairafter, will be released before the end of the world, or November 2026, whichever comes first.