Martyr's Gaze

In the decaying industrial republic of Veridia, a homeless drifter named Milo is convicted of murdering a tech magnate. But when a viral media empire, "EchoSphere," reframes Milo as a folk hero fighting systemic corruption, the true victim—a whistleblower journalist—is vilified as a traitor. Through grotesque, hallucinatory prose, the novel dissects how digital deities manufacture sainthood for sinners and sin for the silenced, leaving readers to question whether goodness was ever more than a trending hashtag.