Books

The Incorruptible

How Gold Won the Long Contest to Be Money — and Whether Bitcoin Rhymes

For five thousand years, one substance did money's job better than any rival. From the first buried bead to Bretton Woods to the Sunday night in 1971 when money became a pure promise — a single-voiced history for readers of Sapiens and The Ascent of Money, closing on the honest question of whether Bitcoin truly rhymes.

The Hinge of History

Making sense of a world in transition — climate, AI, the end of an order, and the road ahead

For most of a century, four quiet supports made the future feel legible: a stable climate, a single power underwriting the rules, information slow enough to check, and predictable economies. All four are giving way at once — and AI is adding a new force beneath everything. A clear-eyed field guide to the transition, honest about what no one can know.

Undertier

The Second Skin Saga · Book 1

His body can't feel the cost — something else is keeping score. A black-market symbiote turns pain into power, and Wick, who feels no pain, thinks the system has no ceiling. A grounded, blood-simple progression fantasy for readers who want their power systems to cost something real — for fans of He Who Fights with Monsters and Mother of Learning.

Two-Named

A Novella of Khaldeh

In Khaldeh, your Name is a legal instrument — cut into your wrist as a scar, holding your debts. When Saba traps her murdered mentor's furious final self inside her own skull, a hostile ghost demands one thing: name the killer in open court. But every time Saba borrows the dead woman's mastery, it costs her a memory. A taut, literary fantasy novella about debt, grief, and the price of what we can't bear to lose.