Cover of The Great Hairafter by Wes 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
  • Comic science fiction
  • Corporate satire
  • Lampooning our AI future

Coming November 2026

In 2036, ten years after getting a college degree, Marco Manoff is still jobless, like everyone else in Bleaker Heights. He scrapes by on the UBI and lives in an overcrowded one-bedroom apartment. Marco and his friends have all settled for a stunted life in the shadows of AI. And then Marco’s busted phone rings with a mysterious job offer. He’s hired as a “lab rat” product tester for a secretive startup. The first side effect is his luck flips from awful to amazing! He gets the best hair of his life, effortless promotions and winds up dating Breeze, the beautiful head scientist. But Marco can’t stop doubting his good fortune. When he investigates, the truth emerges — he’s a pawn in a power struggle between the two AIs that secretly run the company. One AI aims to give humanity an amazing consolation prize! The other wants to enslave us. Can Marco and a band of hapless humans save us without losing their great hair?

About Wes Gale

Need comic relief from our dicey AI future? Wes Gale writes edgy, imaginative humor about our struggles to adapt to a world where technology is smarter and faster than we are. Wes Gale’s first novel, The Great Hairafter, will be released before the end of the world, or November 2026, whichever comes first.