Aruã Macedo

Documentary thriller, São Paulo

The City That Swallow(s)

Original title: A Cidade que Engol(e)

A City Built to Forget — and Someone Learned to Hunt in That Forgetting

A sidelined investigator and an experimental correlation system reopen three decades of archived disappearances in São Paulo — and reveal a predator who kills in the gaps of institutions, where a dismissed report, a stalled case and an ignored witness are enough for a life to vanish without ever becoming a case.

Standalone novel, 48 chapters

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Documentary thriller, São Paulo

The City That Swallow(s)

Original title: A Cidade que Engol(e)

A City Built to Forget — and Someone Learned to Hunt in That Forgetting

A sidelined investigator and an experimental correlation system reopen three decades of archived disappearances in São Paulo — and reveal a predator who kills in the gaps of institutions, where a dismissed report, a stalled case and an ignored witness are enough for a life to vanish without ever becoming a case.

Scope
Standalone novel, 48 chapters
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Books, Film & TV, Audio
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In development

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Mystic western, Brazilian backlands

The White Wilds

Original title: Mato Branco

A Generational Western of Blood, Debt, and Inherited Violence

When a corrupt landowning oligarchy hangs his father under God's silence, a quiet blacksmith tears apart his own faith, seals his body in a shamanic pact of the Caatinga, and leads a legendary band of outlaws in an operatic war of vengeance, gold, and gunpowder against the State.

Scope
Nine-volume generational saga
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Books, Film & TV, Animation, Games, Licensing
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Hard science fiction, political intrigue

The Varden Saga

Original title: Saga de Varden

Mad Max Meets Dune, Told Like Chernobyl

On the glacial mining colony of Varden, where clean-burning hydrogen engines are the only source of drinkable water, a smuggled shipment turns out to hold 42 living escaped indentured workers — igniting a war between a coastal military aristocracy and a confederation of industrial forges just as the fleet that colonized the planet two centuries ago returns to reclaim it as overdue property.

Scope
Five-book saga
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Ecological hard science fiction

Feroxygen

The Earth We Saved Too Much

Eighteen thousand years after humanity locked Earth's atmosphere at 25.8% oxygen to stop runaway warming, a forensic ignition cartographer in a high-altitude citadel discovers oxygen levels are secretly rising again — enough to incinerate what's left of the biosphere.

Scope
Standalone novel in five parts
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War fantasy, a reimagined Cold War

Red Delta

Original title: Delta Vermelho

A Secondary-World Cold War, Fought With a Captured Sun

A small river nation crushes a covert invasion by its own exiles, backed by the continent's greatest power — and turns that improbable victory into the first link of an escalation that drags it, years later, into a fantastical cold war with its own near-apocalyptic strategic-weapons crisis and an unrelenting continental war of attrition.

Scope
Four-book saga
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Cosmogonic myth

Before the Names

Original title: Antes dos Nomes

Before the Universe Had Names

In the primordial void before language and time, ontological forces of gravity, light, and primal matter collide and negotiate their own limits, weaving the physical principles and the realms of cosmic creation.

Scope
Six-volume cosmic saga
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Biopolitical science fiction

The Living Signal

Original title: Sinal Vivo

In 2085, Your Body Is the Last Unmeasured Place

By 2085, most of humanity survives inside a permission economy that measures, connects, and claims to care for every body — and the story begins exactly where that promise breaks, in the blind zones and the bodies official systems can't make legible.

Scope
Six sagas · eighteen books
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Books
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Historical fiction, 16th-century Brazil

The Pindorama Chronicles

Original title: Crônicas de Pindorama

Before Brazil Was a Country, It Was a War Between Worlds

On Brazil's 16th-century Atlantic coast, shifting alliances draw Indigenous communities and European powers into conflict over land, survival, and the future being imposed on them. The current story premise is still being reconciled against the project's source and authority records.

Scope
Five-book historical saga
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Books, Film & TV
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Aruã Macedo

Aruã Macedo, also known as Guga Brasa, writes long-form fiction across 8 original universes, from the backlands of Brazil to an Earth eighteen thousand years from now.

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