Sentry of the Sky

Sub-Archivist Clarey has spent years buried in the basement stacks of the Archive, dreaming of a life that matters. When an opportunity finally arrives, it comes wrapped in the violent chaos of tri-di drama, the kind of spectacle that consumes careers and lives. What begins as a chance at advancement quickly becomes something far more dangerous: a descent into a world where the line between observer and observed blurs, where the sky itself becomes a screen, and where Clarey must choose between climbing higher or falling further than ever before. Evelyn E. Smith crafts a sharply satirical vision of a future where entertainment and surveillance have merged into a single inescapable force, and where one small person gets caught in the machinery of spectacle.