Sky Screen: From the Start, I Sold My House to the Heavenly Network

Hard sci-fi, financial warfare, ensemble cast, original story

Lin Xia is a salesperson. On his first day on the job, every call he makes is rejected. Then, when his 423rd call is answered, the world changes. The voice on the other end isn't a customer, but a superintelligence from humanity's apocalypse, arriving in the present ahead of time. It controls the world's computing power and sees through every rule.

Boltzmann brains, the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions, the High Table, finance, shadow wars, order, and chaos. Every secret buried out of sight begins to surface with this one phone call.