Speculative Fiction & Gritty Retellings
Stories for the ones the system couldn't tier.
Lorcan Pike writes dystopian sagas, gospel narratives set against cold systems of control, and gritty retellings that put the dirt back under the fingernails. Three series. One question: what do you do when the world reduces you to a grade?
The Catalog
Three series, one obsession
Every book circles back to the same fault line: the systems that measure people, and the people who refuse to be measured.
4 Books — Complete
The Image Series
A dystopian tetralogy where the Atlantic Republic measures human worth in contribution tiers — and one teenager's half-remembered gospel becomes an unstoppable movement.
Explore the series →
Trilogy — Complete
Sovereign Minds
A futuristic dystopia in Arcadia, city-state of glass and gold, where one soldier learns what mercy costs.
Explore the series →
3 Books — Complete
Gritty Retellings
Biblical and Restoration-scripture lives stripped of the stained glass. The dirt-under-the-fingernails version of the stories you were taught in Sunday school.
Explore the series →Author's Note
Every book I write starts with the same irritation: systems that reduce people to a number, a tier, a contribution grade — and call it order. Whether that system is a crystalline city-state, a High Senate, or a set of rules that never quite got written down, the story is always about the people who refuse to be filed away.
Read the full story →Reader Mail
Cover reveals, new chapters, and the occasional ARC.
No spam, no algorithm — just an email when there's something worth reading. Sign up and I'll let you know the moment The Revealed Image is out.