Ryan Heltemes ← Index of works

Bookshelf

Twelve books. Two series and one standalone. Six are published; the rest are written or being written, and are held here as slots rather than promises.

The Hole

Science fiction · complete in four

The galaxy dies; greed survives. Four volumes follow the same catastrophe through four sets of eyes — the one who believes it, the one who sees it, the one who runs it, and whoever is left at the end.

I

The Believer

The arrival, and the first person willing to take it seriously.

II

The Witness

What it looks like from the inside, to someone with no power to stop it.

III

The Operator

The second way out, and the people who built the machinery of it.

IV

The End

The scavengers, and the last transit out.

The Garden of Revolution

Seven volumes · one published

A seven-book cycle, and not sequels in the ordinary sense — the author calls them living phases of one transmission. It starts by naming what has happened to shared language and shared story, and then turns, volume by volume, from diagnosis to construction: what a person can actually build that cannot be turned against them.

I

Confessions of a Conspirator

A confession from someone who helped shape narratives and stopped. It exposes the fracture and stirs the memory of what is missing.

II

The New Seed

A conspirator's guide to psychological warfare in the age of illusion — arming the awakened, and preparing the soul to stand.

  • Working title
  • Written · not yet published

III

Guerrilla Gardening for the Soul

For those ready to build and transmit what cannot be inverted — restoring order, planting the pattern, and vanishing into the harvest.

  • Working title
  • Written · not yet published

IV

The Liberator's Field Guide

The practical volume: surveying the ground, clearing it, laying a foundation, and raising the first structure on it.

  • Working title · no cover yet
  • Written · not yet published

V

The Garden of True Seeds

Forty-nine parables for children and the grown-ups reading to them — the one volume in the cycle written to be read aloud at bedtime.

  • Children's parables
  • Written · not yet published

VI

Handbook for Families and Communities

Why top-down fixes fail, and how real change has always started from below — written for the fragmented family, and for beginning again.

  • Working title · no cover yet
  • Written · not yet published

VII

The Archetype Core

The pedagogy of the citizen. It opens with a machine of infinite capacity and no software — power without instruction — and asks what gets installed in a person instead.

  • Working title · no cover yet
  • Written · not yet published

Standalone

One, so far

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How I Met My Monkey

A stolen cup of coffee, a runaway capuchin, and one very ordinary man who drives home with a monkey in the passenger seat.