Christopher Keast is a speculative fiction author, engineer, and musician. He has self-published his first novel DATAPOCALYPSE, a prequel to DIGEPOCH—yet to be released. His short story SPARKS OF SELMA can be found in The Open Arms ‘zine while his flash short VIRALPOCALYPSE can be found in Flash Fiction Magazine. His short story EYES OF EGO won the adult short story 2022 Norfolk Literary Prize at the Norfolk County Public Library. He has have recently completed the manuscript for his third novel, ERASING FIBONACCI, unrelated to the DATAPOCALYPSE series. He spends his early waking hours writing stories that weave science and technology into satire and dystopia, promising readers a fun ride to somewhere or other. His characters struggle in worlds where virtual reality, biotechnology, and ecological strain collide with comedy, romance and the supernatural, with glimpses into realms barely pondered. Stories like social media-supernatural viruses getting injected into an innocent adolescent’s mind; cyborgs escaping their testing ground in Australia; an old man’s attempt to overcome his longtime wife’s death using her life-sized, speaking, mind-reading hologram; and, most notably, my two-novel story about peoples’ selfie, social media, and picture-taking infatuations causing an AI, run by a faceless corporation, to go rogue and begin purging the buildings, monuments, and people depicted in such photos, in order to balance Earth’s total carrying capacity for data storage. Christopher lives in Port Dover, Canada with his wife and daughter. Follow Christopher at https://christopherkeast.com/.