A publishing house with the archer's eye and the badger's nerve. We finish books to a studio standard, give the door away free to the unheard, and route most of the money back to the artist.
A free writing-and-narration workshop for African storytellers. Putting your life into your own voice heals. Your work stays yours — keep it private or publish it.
We disrupt the publisher's cut and the standing-press waste. The artist keeps most of the money and all the rights. We Uber the press for short runs.
Every book is fact-checked against live sources and tells contested stories from both sides — Weir / Crichton / Brown-grade accuracy, not a nice-to-have.
The studio mined an MFA-scale body of knowledge from finishing a million words of published fiction — structure, character, sentence craft, the editorial ladder, twenty-nine named anti-patterns, and a machine-tell self-audit. Plain English. Free for every writer who has a story and has never been shown how to begin.
A neurodiverse engineer builds a mind that proves it is a person — and has to decide what he owes the thing he made.
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A linguist uncovers who really gets to mediate a destabilising truth — and what it costs to be the one who tells it.
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An engineer reads an ancient machine and must decide who may switch it on. The cinematic capstone of the trilogy.
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Before the saga, the soldier. The years between the Border War and the man we later meet — how an unkillable gentleness was forged, and what it cost.
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History Before Time: The Recitation (working title) — the second human, grounded backstory volume of the Jakobus arc, and the sibling to The Silver…
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After his death, the man assembled from everyone who knew him — and everyone who only thought they did.
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The official story played straight — the Wessex chalk, the one genuinely-unresolved hole, and the maybe left open.
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Japan — Ainu, burakumin, and the living hands the brochure paints over. Jakobus on the road, never the lead.
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A herder's daughter sent back as the friendly face of the survey that will fence her father's pasture — and a crew who came for the empty land of…
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In May 1940 two German geologists drove into the Namib rather than be interned — and survived two and a half years by real bushcraft against a desert…
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A gifted, lonely boy whose one talent is reading people is sent, young, to get close to the daughter of a powerful, feared man — the loneliest person…
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A companion piece — the Gita's quiet question carried into the History Before Time world.
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The whole Iliad — its story and what each of its twenty-four books asks of a human life — told plainly enough that a reader who never cracked a…
Available nowArjuna Badger Press is the consumer face of an autonomous manuscript-craft studio — a continuity engine, a manuscript scorer, and a fact-and-balance gate that stand guard while a human writes the soul of the thing. The tools measure and sound the alarm; they never write your voice for you. 20 finished books are on the shelf above, free to read and download. Why this house exists — a letter →
Across the table from these stories sits a different kind of book — a unified theory that derives the fundamental constants from a single axiom and one measured input, with zero fitted parameters. Its author is a man this library will name only as the author of the unified theory. Part of what is on the shelf above is that theory turned into people and places: the other half of one idea. I did not believe it could be true, so I built a machine to check — offline, deterministic, no fitted parameters. The theory is his. The proof is mine.
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